[Vm-dev] float word order

[John M McIntosh]

On 19-Apr-09, at 8:37 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:

>> The values in a FloatArray are 32-bit floats, packed into 64-bit  
>> slots
> in the object memory. There are no endian issues to worry about. On  
> both
> 32-bit and 64-bit object memories, the values are arranged in the  
> order
> of an (int *) access. In other words, they are arrays of 32-bit values
> that just happen to be stuffed onto slots that the object memory  
> thinks
> are 64-bit words.


Well that's not quite true, you have to be careful here because might  
people move data in and out of
the FloatArray, but let's see..


MatrixTransform2x3>>at: index put: value
	<primitive: 'primitiveAtPut' module: 'FloatArrayPlugin'>
	value isFloat
		ifTrue:[self basicAt: index put: value asIEEE32BitWord]
		ifFalse:[self at: index put: value asFloat].
	^value


CGPoint>>x: aValue
	self unsignedLongAt: 1 put:  aValue asFloat asIEEE32BitWord  
bigEndian: SmalltalkImage current  isBigEndian.


Ok, well the reverseBytesInImage logic I'll assume without looking is  
swapping the bytes in the FloatArray at load time so that accessors
use SmalltalkImage current  isBigEndian to move data in/out in the  
proper form.
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