IEEE Double and Platform Endianess
Raab, Andreas
Andreas.Raab at disney.com
Mon May 29 05:32:35 UTC 2000
> Will the following code work on big AND little endian machines ?
Given that it's correct, yes ;-)
> In other words, does a Float within Squeak follow the endianness (sp?)
> of the platform, or is it the same for all platforms.
Floats are always stored in the same order. How else could the 32<->64bit
conversion work without taking endianness into account?!
> If it difers by platform, is their a way to find out
> what the endianess of the current vm is ?
Smalltalk endianness.
- A.
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