4 Apr
2016
4 Apr
'16
6:41 p.m.
Gavin Lambert wrote:
There's no particular reason why the library couldn't also contain conversions for some specific non-IEEE floating point format, if one is sufficiently popular or appears in well-known file formats such that it might be useful.
Yes in principle, but that's not the case for which I was arguing, it's the opposite. I was discussing the scenario in which the file format contains IEEE (little-endian, say) floats, and the platform's floats are not IEEE (as opposed to merely not little endian).