Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
About Conversions
The IEEE standard requires the following types of conversions:
PowerPC Numerics supports all of these, as well as conversions between decimal formats.
- from floating-point formats to integer formats
- from integer formats to floating-point formats
- from floating-point values to integer values, with the result in a floating-point format
- between all supported floating-point formats
- between binary and decimal numbers