Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Handling DOUBLES

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gilramir@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 15:19:40 -0500
Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> 
> > Also, I was wondering how I distinguish between 32bit floats and 64bit floats.
> > There is no FT_FLOAT type to use, only FT_DOUBLE.
> 
> Necessity -- we haven't had to yet.

And to answer the question that you asked, not the question
I thought you asked, there is no way to distinguish between
FT_FLOAT and FT_DOUBLE yet.  Adding a new type, however,
is fairly easy. Look at the FT_* type system code in
epan/ftypes

--gilbert