Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > In that case, you may interested in the decimal floating point work > > which has been put into gcc and some new Intel and PowerPC > processors. This is floating point which uses base 10. Yes, I already know about that. Their representation is such that decoding the endianness would be no harder than for IEEE 754. It can get a lot harder than THAT! 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
