Raw binary(to work without OS) in D

[Jens Mueller]

Don Clugston wrote:
> On 28/06/12 15:31, Jens Mueller wrote:
> >Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> >>On 6/22/12 7:41 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
> >>>I think the main thing that's still done in C is the floating point
> >>>formatting.
> >>
> >>Would be great if a contributor could translate FP parsing and
> >>formatting code into D. Then we can use it in CTFE. I need it badly
> >>for some function tabulation code.
> >
> >I think formatting cannot be done such that it is CTFE-able. I tried
> >implementing a less-inefficient version. As far as I can tell at some
> >point you need to extract the significand and the exponent. This is done
> >by some "unsafe" cast which is not allowed in CTFE. I don't know a way
> >to do it in CTFE-compatible way.
> >
> >Jens
> 
> Yeah, I think I will have to find a way of allowing it. But it's
> difficult to see a clean way of doing it.

Good luck! I'm looking forward to your solution.

Jens