Floating-Point Filters

The XDR library also provides primitive routines for C floating-point types.

bool_t xdr_float(xdrs, fp)
  	XDR *xdrs;
  	float *fp;
bool_t xdr_double(xdrs, dp)
  	XDR *xdrs;
  	double *dp;

The first parameter, xdrs, is an XDR stream handle. The second parameter is the address of the floating-point number that provides data to the stream or receives data from it. Both routines return TRUE if they complete successfully, and FALSE otherwise.

Because the numbers are represented in IEEE floating point, routines might fail when decoding a valid IEEE representation into a machine-specific representation, or the reverse.