Andrew Haley <aph-gcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > AC_C_BIGENDIAN is for integers. As far as I am aware the PDP/ARM > "middle-endian" problem only applies to floating-point words, and the > situation for those is far more complex than mere endianness. Not > every platform supports the IEEE-754 format, and picking apart other > formats requires special-case programming. Happily, this isn't a > problem that most people have to solve. Oh, gosh, yes. But it applies even to systems that support the IEEE 754 format, if they use it in different ways. In my talks here, I warn people against importing binary data from a system that supports denormalised numbers (or infinities or NaNs) to one that doesn't. That can cause chaos. Regards, Nick Maclaren, University of Cambridge Computing Service, New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. Email: nmm1@xxxxxxxxx Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679
