> On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 03:02:41AM +0100, Adam D. Moss wrote:
>
>>Another data point is that floats are just a bastard to serialise
>>in a portable, precise manner. Personally I'd represent a 32-bit
>>float with a 32-bit integer and 32-bit fixed-point fractional part.
>>Redundant but complete-ish. (Practical better ideas welcomed.)
>
> IEEE floats are portable except for the endian issue. 32-bit floating point
> PCM audio is just IEEE floats prescribed as little (iirc) endian.
>
> Where did you get the idea that this was problematic?
IIRC, the Loki guys. Some ramblings a few years ago on the problems of interoperability of game data between windows/mac/linuxx86/linuxalpha/etc over network and on disk. They made a special point of saying something like 'never, ever serialize floats' and it sounded like the voice of experience.
--Adam -- Adam D. Moss . ,,^^ adam@xxxxxxxx http://www.foxbox.org/ co:3 "I am NOT a nut! I am the keeper of the seven universal truths!"
