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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Tue Sep 28 18:36:56 2004
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