<zitiere wer="Simon Thum"> > Hello people, > > I'm trying to get some consensus about floats on the wire. I cc'ed some > who spoke about the issue on the list in a non-exhaustive search. > > Recap: Peter and I want to transfer floats in input properties, see there: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-December/041647.html > > On XDS 08, Keith suggested simply putting them on the wire. That is, > require IEEE756 32 bit and account for endianness. > > Roland suggested to drop the binary representation, and favored a string > rep. specified in C99. He claims interchange of binary representations > is unsafe due to platform details: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-December/041650.html > > While I see benefits of a string rep, X isn't C99 AFAIK. Also, the > protocol in general is built on binary representations, so a string > encoding seems somewhat odd to me. > > I don't actually need floats badly, but they're more natural than fixed. > > Comments/Suggestions please?
if floats are realy needed i would go with an already established like XDR it is already in glibc and it is a defined RFC. the next best thing is to use plain ascii as it removes the need to think about endians. just my 2 cents, wh _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
