On 28/09/2024 10:56, Karoly Balogh via fpc-devel wrote:
Fromt the top of my head, I only know one example of a big endian system
which has an 80 bit extended type in hardware, and it's the Motorola 68000
family. Which actually stores exteded in a 96 bit format in memory, with a
gap. :) (See: Moto
Hi,
On Sat, 28 Sep 2024, Martin Frb via fpc-devel wrote:
> About the big endian issue: That means it is not memory compatible with a
> native "extended" because it has a gap.
Fromt the top of my head, I only know one example of a big endian system
which has an 80 bit extended type in hardware, a
On 28/09/2024 10:26, Martin Frb via fpc-devel wrote:
In addition, now googled, on wikipedia there is only one format for
80bits? (unless I missed something). But it's in a paragraph referring
to x86...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_precision#x86_extended_precision_format
From that
On 28/09/2024 09:45, Martin Frb via fpc-devel wrote:
On 28/09/2024 09:34, Pierre Muller via fpc-devel wrote:
I think that the big endian version (see grep below)
would suffer if you would use packed
because the high field of size 2,
would put the low field of size 8 at offset 2,
which would trig
> Am 28.09.2024 um 09:24 schrieb Pierre Muller via fpc-devel
> :
>
> I think that the big endian version (see grep below)
> would suffer if you would use packed
> because the high field of size 2,
> would put the low field of size 8 at offset 2,
> which would trigger unaligned access to this f
On 28/09/2024 09:34, Pierre Muller via fpc-devel wrote:
I think that the big endian version (see grep below)
would suffer if you would use packed
because the high field of size 2,
would put the low field of size 8 at offset 2,
which would trigger unaligned access to this field.
For the little en
I think that the big endian version (see grep below)
would suffer if you would use packed
because the high field of size 2,
would put the low field of size 8 at offset 2,
which would trigger unaligned access to this field.
For the little endian definition,
it doesn't change anything, does it?
Pi
