Re: converting single to integer

In article <fcop1j$bin$2@xxxxxxxx>, none@xxxxxxx says...
David Kerber wrote:
In article <OitxKgW#HHA.980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
rickNOSPAMnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
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What is the difference between storing a Single in an Integer and "casting"
a Single to an Integer... isn't the end result the same... an Integer?

They're both integers, but have different values.

If by "different value" you mean a differing internal representation for
the same numerical value...

Are you sure about that? I don't know the internal representation of
the various types of numbers, but if you take the bit pattern:

00011010 11100001 00001111 10101010

and interpret it as a Single (assuming it represents a valid Single), I
sincerely doubt it would return the same value as that bit pattern
interpreted as an Integer, which is what you are doing when you use
memcopy to copy from a single to an integer. Or am I completely
misintrepreting the line of this discussion? If you use a Cast, then
you will get the same value, but a different internal bit pattern.

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