I'd second Uwe's point. I was one of 31 signatories to first IEEE 754 (I didn't
participate in
the two more recent releases, as I already tore my hair out with the details of
low level
bit manipulations). Before the standard, porting code was truly a nightmare. We
did it
because we had to and
On 06.12.2021 03:09, Avraham Adler wrote:
Would this mean we could start using little endian bit strings, as I think
only the Solaris platform was big endian (or was it the other way around)?
It depends on the hardware, not the OS.
CRAN checked on Intel CPUs, which are little endian while
Would this mean we could start using little endian bit strings, as I think
only the Solaris platform was big endian (or was it the other way around)?
Avi
On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 8:56 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 5 December 2021 at 17:23, Travers Ching wrote:
> | I see that there doesn't
On 5 December 2021 at 17:23, Travers Ching wrote:
| I see that there doesn't exist a Solaris flavor on any CRAN check page.
| However, I'm certain that Solaris was being checked up until very recently.
|
| Is this just temporary?
|
| Is there any information for the future of Solaris on CRAN?
I see that there doesn't exist a Solaris flavor on any CRAN check page.
However, I'm certain that Solaris was being checked up until very recently.
Is this just temporary?
Is there any information for the future of Solaris on CRAN?
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