On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:21:11PM -0700, Bill Coffman wrote: > That being said, you can optimize by looking at the bits. Wikipedia > explains IEEE-754 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754 > First, you have to be aware if the machine is big or little-endian, second,
Beware. It's legal for the endianness of the word order in memory to differ from the endianness of the byte order within those words. Nicholas Clark