Sending Float values...

[swetha]

Hi,
I worte a RPC program for client and server, After computing
(which i already did)..i get a float value.Now i want this value to be
sent to the client .I know how to do with integer (By passing the
addreess using the pointers,but when i am doing the same here iam
getting errors.Can any 1 tell how to do that please.....
for example say i have the value in result variable ;which is
float....now how should i declare and send this to the client side....

[Malcolm McLean]

"swetha" <la*******@gmail.comwrote in message

I worte a RPC program for client and server, After computing
(which i already did)..i get a float value.Now i want this value to be
sent to the client .I know how to do with integer (By passing the
addreess using the pointers,but when i am doing the same here iam
getting errors.Can any 1 tell how to do that please.....
for example say i have the value in result variable ;which is
float....now how should i declare and send this to the client side....

You need to convert the floats to a common binary format.

If you read the maths section in my book Basic Algorithms (chapter avialable
free, on my website) you will see floating point representation explained.

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[James Fang]

On 12ÔÂ9ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç1ʱ41·Ö, swetha <[e-mail]:

Hi,
I worte a RPC program for client and server, After computing
(which i already did)..i get a float value.Now i want this value to be
sent to the client .I know how to do with integer (By passing the
addreess using the pointers,but when i am doing the same here iam
getting errors.Can any 1 tell how to do that please.....
for example say i have the value in result variable ;which is
float....now how should i declare and send this to the client side....

try to use asc string instead of the float representation in memory:

#define MAX_FLOAT_LEN 32

int main() {
float a = 1.1;
char floatArray[MAX_FLOAT_LEN];
memset(floatArray,0,sizeof(floatArray));
snprintf(floatArray,sizeof(floatArray),"%f",a);
printf("%s\n",floatArray);
}

you can call send(fd, floatArray, strlen(floatArray),0); to send the
char array to the remote peer.
If you are using TCP as the transport layer protocol, it's better to
add "\r\n" in the end of the float string, so that you can distinguish
the float string from the remote
host:snprintf(floatArray,sizeof(floatArray),"%fr\n ",a);

[James Fang]

On 12ÔÂ10ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç12ʱ15·Ö, James Fang <[e-mail]:

On 12ÔÂ9ÈÕ, ÏÂÎç1ʱ41·Ö, swetha <[e-mail]:

Hi,
I worte a RPC program for client and server, After computing
(which i already did)..i get a float value.Now i want this value to be
sent to the client .I know how to do with integer (By passing the
addreess using the pointers,but when i am doing the same here iam
getting errors.Can any 1 tell how to do that please.....
for example say i have the value in result variable ;which is
float....now how should i declare and send this to the client side....

try to use asc string instead of the float representation in memory:

#define MAX_FLOAT_LEN 32

int main() {
float a = 1.1;
char floatArray[MAX_FLOAT_LEN];
memset(floatArray,0,sizeof(floatArray));
snprintf(floatArray,sizeof(floatArray),"%f",a);
printf("%s\n",floatArray);

}

you can call send(fd, floatArray, strlen(floatArray),0); to send the
char array to the remote peer.
If you are using TCP as the transport layer protocol, it's better to
add "\r\n" in the end of the float string, so that you can distinguish
the float string from the remote

an amendment to my above post:

host:snprintf(floatArray,sizeof(floatArray),"%f\r\ n",a);