Floats over IP
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Ok, I have a problem...
I want to send a few floats, between the server and client. I do my socket reading/writting at an octet level, and, I am wondering, how long is a float, in octets. And, if the size of a float varies between machines...
Thanks in advance.
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a single precision floating point number is usually 4 bytes 
You can always try sizeof(float) to be sure, that''s what it''s for. Since there is such a thing as IEEE fp standards, I doubt you will ever come across floats that are not 4 bytes... let me know if you do !
You can always try sizeof(float) to be sure, that''s what it''s for. Since there is such a thing as IEEE fp standards, I doubt you will ever come across floats that are not 4 bytes... let me know if you do !
>>I doubt you will ever come across floats that are not 4 bytes... let me know if you do ! <<
Just curious, but does anyone know if the new 64-bit stuff on the horizon will change this at all?
-John
Just curious, but does anyone know if the new 64-bit stuff on the horizon will change this at all?
-John
The size of a float is sizeof(float).
The size of a double is sizeof(double).
IEEE 754 specifies an internal format of 32 and 64 bit floating point values, but there is no guarantee computer use it (ok, most modern machines do).
All C++ specifies is that long double is at least as accurate as double which is itself at least as accurate as float.
They could be all the same type - indeed, long double often is the same as double.
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The size of a double is sizeof(double).
IEEE 754 specifies an internal format of 32 and 64 bit floating point values, but there is no guarantee computer use it (ok, most modern machines do).
All C++ specifies is that long double is at least as accurate as double which is itself at least as accurate as float.
They could be all the same type - indeed, long double often is the same as double.
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C++ Stuff [ MinGW | Loki | SDL | Boost. | STLport | FLTK | ACCU Recommended Books ]
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I know about sizeof(float) (duh!), but what I was wondering is if that differs from one architecture to another. My client/server are designed with portability in mind, and I would actually like it to be portable 
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You''re more likely to have different sized
ints than floats, since even on 64-bit architectures, floats and double are still usually 32- and 64- bits each. If I had my way, I''d have all of you shot!
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