Re: unsafeCoerce# between integral and floating point types

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 04:49:00PM +0200, Daniel Fischer wrote:

If there are more pitfalls, is there any chance of getting a function which reinterprets the bit-patterns?

Hi, you can do something like this (untested): castWordToFloat :: Word32 -> Float castWordToFloat w = unsafePerformIO $ do alloca w $ \pw -> do peek (castPtr pw) John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ - http://notanumber.net/