On Sat, 4 May 2002, Brent Dax wrote: > Melvin Smith: > # I have a patch almost complete that makes Parrot handle > # bytecode files across platforms (does endian and wordsize > # transform), but there is one glaring non-portability, and > # that is that we are storing floating point constants in native format. > # > # We need to discuss how we want to portably store these (I > # propose as a string) so I can finish up this patch. > > atof()able string. Now finish the patch. ;^)
You may want to review perl5's whole atof family of functions before going down that route. And that's only the reading half. The writing half is even scarier. -- Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Physics Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042