[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #63940] `format native-bit` gives wrong results

[Arun Giridhar]

Update of bug #63940 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Patch Submitted        

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Follow-up Comment #1:

The fix turns out to be very simple:

diff -r 48eaf9df5a5b libinterp/corefcn/pr-output.cc
--- a/libinterp/corefcn/pr-output.cc    Mon Mar 13 14:10:11 2023 -0400
+++ b/libinterp/corefcn/pr-output.cc    Sat Mar 18 08:41:33 2023 -0400
@@ -1452,7 +1452,7 @@ pr_any_float (std::ostream& os, const fl
           if (bit_format > 1)
             {
               for (std::size_t i = 0; i < sizeof (T); i++)
-                PRINT_CHAR_BITS_SWAPPED (os, tmp.i[i]);
+                PRINT_CHAR_BITS (os, tmp.i[i]);
             }
           else
             {


Will wait for confirmation against Matlab.

Incidentally, `format hex` and `format native-hex` do the right thing, but
`native-bit` is not consistent with `native-hex` without this patch.


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