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Re: Bytes order and words order

Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> | Don't assume that the word-order of a floating-point number will be the
> | same as the word-order of an integral type.  It isn't the case on the FPA
> | co-processor for the ARM for instance.
> 
> 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__ ?
Why TARGET? Surely __FLOAT_WORD_ORDER__ is sufficient. I'm a bit confused
about what exactly you mean by word order for a floating point type.
But you and Richard seem to know what you're talking about.

nathan
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