On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Austin Donnelly wrote: > > > How is the serialization done then, just a raw 32-bit IEEE float > > > dump with a predefined endianness? 64-bit doubles just as easy? > > > > Yup. > > The real problem comes when your code is running on a system without IEEE > float support, and you need to manually convert from IEEE float to your > local weird-ass machine float. Not common, I grant you, but a real pain > when it bites. Well, since my day job is working with a non-IEEE machine, I can tell you about that pain first hand. It probably took about three days to write conversion functions between the native format and IEEE float and double. Rockwalrus
