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/*
* Modification History
*
* 2001-February-3 Jason Rohrer
* Created.
*
* 2001-February-4 Jason Rohrer
* Fixed a bug that made this test not compatible with TypeIO.
* Fixed comment.
*/
#include <stdio.h>
// function for testing how doubles are stored
/*
* The output from a big-endian linux is as follows:
*
* size of double = 8
* byte 0 = 63
* byte 1 = 255
* byte 2 = 189
* byte 3 = 137
* byte 4 = 176
* byte 5 = 126
* byte 6 = 158
* byte 7 = 168
*
*/
int main() {
printf( "size of double = %d\n", sizeof( double ) );
double x = 1.983773889;
unsigned char *doubleBuffer = (unsigned char*)( &x );
for( int i=0; i<8; i++ ) {
printf( "byte %d = %d\n", i, doubleBuffer[i] );
}
return 0;
}
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