On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 23:56, José Fonseca wrote:
> 
> This is still disabled by default since some things are still missing.
> One of them is support for bigendian architectures, and therefore a
> doubt that I came about: is it necessary to swap bytes when writting a
> IEEE fp number on a bigendian machine, or is the IEEE fp number stored
> independently of that?

The former, the CPU stores floats in native byte order, as any data.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast


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