IBM integer and double formats

[Mark Dickinson]

On Nov 10, 11:49 pm, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:
> Call me crazy if you like, but I'd name that function IEEEtoIBM.

But it's topsy-turvy day!  Didn't you get the memo?

Oh, all right.  IEEEtoIBM it is.

> That's a hexadecimal representation in lowercase with no leading
> zeroes ... variable length and lowercase doesn't seem very IBM to me.

True.  Replace "%x" with "%016X" for fixed-length uppercase. Or as you
say, bytes output is probably more natural.  I was guessing that the
OP
wants to write the converted float out to an ASCII file, in hex.

Mark