Interpreting Bytevector Contents as Floating Point Numbers

Bytevector contents can also be accessed as IEEE-754 single- or double-precision floating point numbers (respectively 32 and 64-bit long) using the procedures described here.

Scheme Procedure: bytevector-ieee-single-ref bv index endianness

Scheme Procedure: bytevector-ieee-double-ref bv index endianness

C Function: scm_bytevector_ieee_single_ref (bv, index, endianness)

C Function: scm_bytevector_ieee_double_ref (bv, index, endianness)

Return the IEEE-754 single-precision floating point number from bv at index according to endianness.

Scheme Procedure: bytevector-ieee-single-set! bv index value endianness

Scheme Procedure: bytevector-ieee-double-set! bv index value endianness

C Function: scm_bytevector_ieee_single_set_x (bv, index, value, endianness)

C Function: scm_bytevector_ieee_double_set_x (bv, index, value, endianness)

Store real number value in bv at index according to endianness.

Specialized procedures are also available:

Scheme Procedure: bytevector-ieee-single-native-ref bv index

Scheme Procedure: bytevector-ieee-double-native-ref bv index

C Function: scm_bytevector_ieee_single_native_ref (bv, index)

C Function: scm_bytevector_ieee_double_native_ref (bv, index)

Return the IEEE-754 single-precision floating point number from bv at index according to the host’s native endianness.

Scheme Procedure: bytevector-ieee-single-native-set! bv index value

Scheme Procedure: bytevector-ieee-double-native-set! bv index value

C Function: scm_bytevector_ieee_single_native_set_x (bv, index, value)

C Function: scm_bytevector_ieee_double_native_set_x (bv, index, value)

Store real number value in bv at index according to the host’s native endianness.