Nathan Carl Summers wrote:
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Adam D. Moss wrote:
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.
Java doesn't seem to have a problem with it. Even poor fools like me who
are working on VM's for machines with non-IEEE floats don't have too much
of a problem.
That's good to know, it helps me out with some of my
own stuff...
How is the serialization done then, just a raw 32-bit IEEE float
dump with a predefined endianness? 64-bit doubles just as easy?
--Adam
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