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@webassemblyjs/floating-point-hex-parser
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A function to parse floating point hexadecimal strings as defined by the WebAssembly specification
A JavaScript function to parse floating point hexadecimals as defined by the WebAssembly specification.
import parseHexFloat from '@webassemblyjs/floating-point-hex-parser'
parseHexFloat('0x1p-1') // 0.5
parseHexFloat('0x1.921fb54442d18p+2') // 6.283185307179586
This module is tested in two ways. The first one is through a small set of test cases that can be found in test/regular.test.js. The second one is non-deterministic (sometimes called fuzzing):
x
.y
in floating point hexadecimal format using the C standard library function printf
since C supports this format.parseHexFloat(y) === x
.By default one npm test
run tests 100 random samples. If you want to do more, you can set the environment variable FUZZ_AMOUNT
to whatever number of runs you'd like. Because it uses one child process for each sample, it is really slow though. For more details about the randomized tests see the source.
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A function to parse floating point hexadecimal strings as defined by the WebAssembly specification
The npm package @webassemblyjs/floating-point-hex-parser receives a total of 8,934,302 weekly downloads. As such, @webassemblyjs/floating-point-hex-parser popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @webassemblyjs/floating-point-hex-parser demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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