From help-request at octave dot org Sat Feb 12 09:42:19 2005
Subject:  Data types (was: Re: Access the neighbors of an element)
From: Joerg Sommer <joerg at alea dot gnuu dot de>
To: help at octave dot org
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:15:37 +0000 (UTC)

"John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu> wrote:
> On 12-Feb-2005, Joerg Sommer <joerg at alea dot gnuu dot de> wrote:
>
> | Is it possible to tell octave it should use integer data types? I don't
> | need floating point operations.
>
> As of 2.1.64, Octave has integer data types with operations that
> should be compatible with Matlab 7.x.  There are the usual +, -, .*,
> ./, etc. ops on signed and unsigned 8-, 16-, and 32-bit integer types.

How are data types set?

> Unfortuantely, compatibility dictates that the operations on the
> elements are done using doubles with the result converted back to ints

And a switch "matlab_compatible=0"? Or special octave types?

Jörg.

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