On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Q: What about endianness?
A: Native endianness. Byteswapping's easy enough.
Where in the packfile does it define the native endinaness of floats?
(Note native endianess has to include wheather the sign is the MSB or
the LSB, and the endianness of the
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Okay, here's the decree.
FP constants in the bytecode file constants section will be 64-bit IEEE floats.
You mean something like this?
--- parrot/Configure.pl Sun Dec 2 00:06:30 2001
+++ parrot-andy/Configure.plTue Dec 4 13:22:31 2001
@@ -60,12
At 01:32 PM 12/4/2001 -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Okay, here's the decree.
FP constants in the bytecode file constants section will be 64-bit IEEE
floats.
You mean something like this?
Nope. :)
The floating-point tyoe can be larger than 64 bit
On Tuesday 04 December 2001 01:32 pm, Andy Dougherty wrote:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:
Okay, here's the decree.
FP constants in the bytecode file constants section will be 64-bit IEEE
floats.
You mean something like this?
-prompt(And your floats?, 'nv');
+prompt