Single/Double precision NA values

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 29-Jul-2008, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | My current patch translates the old NA values to the new internal 
> | representation when reading files, though I can't remember if fread does 
> | it as well. However the code writes the new NA values to the files.
>
> It doesn't.  I looked, but I don't see a convenient place to insert
> the conversion.
>
> I've applied the patch anyway, as it seems useful to have both
> NA ("single") and single (NA) work correctly.
>
> jwe
>
>   
Isn't the way to get fread to convert the NA values to just have a 
specialization of
t
template <class NDArray, class double>
octave_value
do_read (octave_stream& strm, octave_idx_type nr, octave_idx_type nc, 
octave_idx_type block_size,
     octave_idx_type skip, bool do_float_fmt_conv,
     oct_mach_info::float_forma from_flt_fmt, octave_idx_type& count)

in oct-stream.cc that performs the conversion of the old NA value to the 
new one? This just means copying the do_read template and adding a copy 
of lines at the end for the conversion. Or am I missing something?

Regards
David

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