double to hex string & hex string to double

Question

What I\'m trying to do is to convert a double to hex string and then back to double.

The following code does conversion double-to-hex string.

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Answer 1

I am using the below function, to convert double to hexadecimal.

char * double2HexString(double a) 
{ 
   char *buf = new char[17]; // double is 8-byte long, so we have 2*8 + terminating \0 
   char *d2c; 
   d2c = (char *) &a; 
   char *n = buf; 
   int i; 
   for(i = 0; i < 8; i++) 
   { 
      sprintf(n, "%02X", *d2c++); 
      n += 2; 
   }  
   *(n) = '\0'; 
}  

passing 1.0 & 16.0 to this function, the return values observed are 000000000000FF37 & 0000000000003040 respectively. I think we should get 1 & 10.