I'd second Uwe's point. I was one of 31 signatories to first IEEE 754 (I didn't
participate in
the two more recent releases, as I already tore my hair out with the details of
low level
bit manipulations). Before the standard, porting code was truly a nightmare. We
did it
because we had to and w
Dear package developers,
CRAN will close its incoming submission queue on Dec 21 and will open it
again on Jan 3.
Best,
Uwe Ligges
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On 06.12.2021 03:09, Avraham Adler wrote:
Would this mean we could start using little endian bit strings, as I think
only the Solaris platform was big endian (or was it the other way around)?
It depends on the hardware, not the OS.
CRAN checked on Intel CPUs, which are little endian while fo