Bytes order and words order

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

 >> Well, what mostly is annoying me in my proposed scheme is that it
 >> would somehow duplicate some information mostly with real.[ch].
 >> That really makes me uneasy.  On a previous attempt, I tried to
 >> have real.[ch] act like part of the C++ library, that was way too
 >> invasive and too tighly coupled with GCC's internals.  I'm open to
 >> suggestions.

 Daniel> Libiberty has a file in it called floatformat.c.  You'd need
 Daniel> to play some licensing games to use it but it should have
 Daniel> everything you need; that's how GDB understands target
 Daniel> floats.

Correct me if I missed something, but from a cursory scan of that file
it looks like it only supports one of the four formats (IEEE) that
real.c supports. 

       paul