gcc321 and doubles and c++

[John Love-Jensen]

Hi Chris,

The representation of a double varies from platform to platform.  There is
no canonical (platform agnostic) format.

Some platforms (perhaps yours) represents doubles in IEEE 754 format.  Which
can be affected by your platform's endian.

qv: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/
qv: http://research.microsoft.com/~hollasch/cgindex/coding/ieeefloat.html

Sincerely,
--Eljay