Re: Save produces large files

[David Bateman]

Søren Hauberg a écrit :

> David Bateman wrote:
>
> > Then try "-float-binary" then, which will use 32-bit floats rather 
> > than doubles and still preserve the NaN values....
>
> I just tried the following:
>
> a = zeros(3); a(5) = NaN;
> octave:25> save -float-binary test.data a
>
> which gives me the following warning:
>
> warning: save: some values too large to save as floats --
> warning: save: saving as doubles instead
>
> Btw. I'm using 2.1.71 on linux

That's pretty stupid behaviour... Perhaps the test for whether data can 
be saved as float needs to be updated to allow that NaN can be saved as 
float.....

D.



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