Re: Help with passing floats through apple events

[cartier@math.uqam.ca (Guillaume Cartier)]

>I am looking for a way to pass floats (short-floats) in an apple event.
>
>What I need is a pointer to the location of the short-float much like the
>(%int-to-ptr i) function I would like a %short-float-to-ptr function so that I
>can poke the bytes of the float.
>
>Thanks for the help,
>Marc.

Check out the %ADDRESS-OF function. You won't even have to bother
with pointers as %ADDRESS-OF will return the integer representation of
immediate objects.

Guillaume.

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