[ILUG] 8 bytes to double conversion

[Martin Donlon]

ahhh....strtod?

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, CARTER JOHN wrote:

> is there a function out there that will convert a 8-byte string into a
> double
> 
> something like
> 
> 
> double Bytes_To_double(unsigned char input_bytes[8])
> {
>   double newdouble;
>   newdouble  =  input_bytes[7]<<56;
>   newdouble += input_bytes[6]<<48;
>   newdouble += input_bytes[5]<<40;
>   newdouble += input_bytes[4]<<32;
>   newdouble += input_bytes[3]<<24;
>   newdouble += input_bytes[2]<<16;
>   newdouble += input_bytes[1]<<8;
>   newdouble += input_bytes[0];
>   return newdouble;
> } 
>  
> 
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Martin
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