Re: [cc65] Floating point support?

From: Sidney Cadot <cadot1science-and-technology.nl>
Date: 2004-09-28 18:36:49
On 28 Sep 2004, at 06:58, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:

> AFAIR, IEEE 754 does *not* tell use the format of the FP values! It 
> only
> defines the "blocks" we have to define (sign, fractional part,
> exponent), and how these are handled. It does not define if LSB first 
> or
> MSB first is used, or the order of the blocks!

It does define the order and size of bit-fields. It does not define 
byte order. In all systems I encountered (including HP, Intel, Sparc, 
Alpha, Cray, SGI, ...), IEEE-754 numbers follow the integer endianness 
on the system involved (which makes sense).

Regards, Sidney

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