converting between float <-> int in javascript

Question

I have a javascript program (running in jsdb which uses Mozilla Spidermonkey 1.8, not in a browser) that I need to convert float and doubles to/from the appropriate number of bytes of their IEEE representations. Java has Float.floatToIntBits() and Float.intBitsToFloat() and similar methods for Double.

Is there a way to compute these functions in Javascript? (and yes, I know that all javascript numbers are essentially of type double)

I guess I could follow the algorithms in the javadoc for Double.longBitsToDouble() and Float.intBitsToFloat() but that only covers one direction, and I need both.

Answer 1

javascript float from/to bits

From the answer: IEEE-754 Floating-Point Conversion