[Bro-Dev] #908: Need for function bytestring_to_double

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#908: Need for function bytestring_to_double
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  Reporter:  carsten          |      Owner:
      Type:  Feature Request  |     Status:  needs information
  Priority:  Normal           |  Milestone:  Bro2.2
 Component:  Bro              |    Version:  git/master
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:
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Comment (by carsten):

 Well, I'm no expert in portability, but I think it should be portable.
 Reasoning:
 - there is a check that the length of bytestring equals the length of the
 internal representation of double in "if ( s->Len() != sizeof(d))".
 - the bit-pattern is first translated from network to host order before it
 is interpreted as double, to avoid invalid bitpatterns as may occur in
 ntohd().
 - the bitpattern interpretation for a double is defined in IEEE 754,
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point_format and I
 just *expect* every compiler on every platform to adhere to this spec.

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