Re: SPAM ieee754 -0.0f?

Peter <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:32:28 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.games.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
what is the context here?  If you're interpreting 0x80000000 (32 bit 
int) as a 32-bit IEEE float it's -0.0f   and 0x00000000 is 0.0f.
  Where are you seeing the -0.0f? In a debugger? I think you must be 
seeing some idiosyncrasy of your development environment or toolchain.

Andras Balogh wrote:

> I know that -0.0f == +0.0f is true, but the floating point 
> representation  of the two numbers should be different, no? Shouldn't 
> the negative zero  have the sign bit set? Well, on my machine -0.0 and 
> 0.0 are bitwise  equal!! What's going on here?
>
> thx,
>
>
> Andras
>




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