workaround for 32 bit integer limitation

I found an interesting post with some suggestions to force from integer to float - Click here

 

 

 

I guess I'd try forcing to scientific notation first:

 

Hume Smith gave a clever solution in news:comp.lang.tcl :

 

 

append i "e0"

 

 

makes it look like scientific notation, meaning "multiplied by 10 to the 0th power, which is 1", which forces the string to a floatstring (i.e. that expr interprets as double) with pure string manipulation.

 

If I understand the recommendation correctly, you might be able to just change these 2 lines of code:

 

 
     set myIpH [format %08x $myIpE] 
  
     set myPortH [format %x $myPortE] 
 

 

to this:

 

 
     set myIpH [format %08x $myIpE] 
     append "e0" myIpH 
  
     set myPortH [format %x $myPortE] 
     append "e0" myPortH 
 

 

 

HTH, and please post back your results and/or update the codeshare with a better soluiton.

 

 

thx

 

/deb