Re: Two or three initial observations on the fp prining patch

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>]

Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@unitus.it> writes:

| We already have |__SHRT_MAX__, ||__INT_MAX__ and so on for the integer
| types,|
| |therefore, basically, we lack: floating point endianness and
| floating-point|
| |format. I would try to extract and update those bits from your original|
| |patch, this seems feasible.
| 
| However, basing on your explanation above, I wonder if something more
| general, including integer endianness and so on, would be better...

Well, I think the __XXX_{MAX, MIN}__ thingy is a solved problem.
What currently concerns me is datatype byte ordering.  It is my
understanding that a patch to address that issue should not just limit
itself to floating point datatype.  It ought to consider all
fundamental datatypes.

I certainly can submit something, but that won't happen before next
Thursday; the reason is my moving to a new country/continent
(completely new to me) and time to get basics (apartments, ...) set.
But, in the meantime, I'll try to finish the the design and send you
something for comments.  

-- Gaby