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Re: Bytes order and words order
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 23 Aug 2002 14:33:58 +0200
- Subject: Re: Bytes order and words order
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <200208231218.NAA17648@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com>
Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> writes:
| > OK, thanks. I was actually thinking of the word-order of
| > floating-point numbers not that of integral types. I think I should
| > name it __TARGET_FLOAT_WORDS_ORDER__ ?
| > Is it reasonable to assume that the byte order of integral and
| > floating point coincide?
|
| I'm not aware of any machines where the byte ordering doesn't match that
| for integers -- at least in the sense that the 'sign bit' of a floating
| point number lives in the 'most significant' byte of a word, etc.
Thanks.
| But I'm not sure if IEEE-754 actually requires this.
No, it doesn't require that
| R.
|
| BTW, if you are picking apart a float like this, does it mean that you are
| assuming IEEE-754 format numbers?
No, I'm not assuming IEEE-754 -- even though I'm testing on such a
plateform. The idea is to provide support for behaviour mandated by
the C++ library (numeric_limits<>), preliminary support for LIA and
IEEE-754 if possible (compatibility with C99).
-- Gaby