RE: Bit twiddling in Java

• To: "Wilson, Andrew, J" <andrew.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, <visad-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: RE: Bit twiddling in Java
• From: "David Homiak" <dhomiak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:46:48 -0500

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/johnstlr/210/BitManip.html
should get you going.

        Dave Homiak
        dhomiak@xxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----
From: Wilson, Andrew, J [mailto:andrew.wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:57 AM
To: visad-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Bit twiddling in Java


I need to convert some IBM formatted floating point data from
a binary file so I can read into VisAd. This uses a different
number of bits for the exponent and mantissa than is used by
the IEEE representation. Can anyone point me at code or a
tutorial on bit-twiddling in Java?

Andrew