On fpc-pascal, there was a short conversation earlier this month, about the FloatView unit that I developed for getting to the internals of floating-point numbers (Subject: License question; unit to view floating-point details).

There seemed to be an interest in incorporating it somehow into one of the FreePascal libraries. I have put it under Contributed Units > Miscellaneous.

BTW, I checkmarked e-mail notification when contributing, but never saw anything of that; is it switched off?

You can find the sources and (modified LGPL) license here:

<http://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/software/float-view/>

The two zip archives there are identical, and contain all the material.

I don't have enough knowledge of FPC to do the integration. (And others probably have little time. :-)

Anyway, it is available.

Best regards,

Tom