19 Nov
2005
19 Nov
'05
7:58 a.m.
On Nov 18, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Martin Bonner wrote:
----Original Message---- From: troy d. straszheim [mailto:troy@resophonic.com] Sent: 18 November 2005 11:41
But floats and doubles are no problem. They have the same size and layout whereever you are, and since you're just flipping bytes and writing/loading binary, you don't have to worry about NaN or inf or any of that, the archive remains blissfully ignorant.
IBM format? VAX floating point? (Not forgetting that the VAX had TWO 64-bit floating point types :-)
In addition, to give just one example the Cray SV1 has 8 byte floats. Matthias