Re: stream protocol question: ASCII hex to 32-bit float

[Kevin Peterson <kmpeters@anl.gov>]

Thanks.  I had hoped to avoid using the subroutine record, but that is
pretty simple and maintainable.

Kevin

On 3/10/16 10:39 AM, Florian Feldbauer wrote:
> Hey Kevin,
> 
> I had the same problem once with a HV power supply.
> I solved the problem this way:
> 
> - Read the value via StreamDevice into a longin record
> - Use a sub-record to convert 32bit-int to 32bit-float
> 
> The subroutine is quiet easy:
> 
> union ficonv{
>   float float_val;
>   unsigned int  int_val;
> };
> 
> static long intToFloat(subRecord *prec) {
>   union ficonv myconf;
> myconf.int_val = prec->a;
> prec->b = myconf.float_val;
> return 0;
> }
> 
> I hope this helps!
> 
> Cheers
> Florian
>