p.lang.pascal.borland:413   
   From: Dr J R Stockton    
      
   In comp.lang.pascal.borland message <4D335166.40608@prino.org>, Sun, 16   
   Jan 2011 20:13:26, Robert AH Prins  posted:   
      
   >So far I am unable to reproduce this problem. I don't have a working   
   >Pascal installation anymore, so I tried with inline assembler inside   
   >Microsoft C. Maybe I don't have quite the right input operand. What is   
   >the byte pattern (10 bytes) for x (i.e. 20.0 + 0.7944154167983592825)   
   >that Pascal produces ?   
      
   I have JavaScript forms to answer that FOR SINGLE AND DOUBLE ONLY at   
   .  I could think about   
   extending them to EXTENDED, but, as I didn't do it at the time, there   
   may be a difficulty - yes, there is.   
      
   A Web search for John Herbster (JohnH) might locate something useful.   
      
   Come to think of it, try in   
    which lists and   
   links   
           floatval.pas    floatval.exe    (BP7 DOS mode)   
           sixbytes.pas   
           tenbytes.pas   
   though I don't recall what they do (but I can compile them).   
      
   OTOH, maybe you only need a compiler and a cast to array of byte.   
      
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