Re: [boost] Optimized portable isnan, isfinite, fpclassify etc

Johan Råde wrote: [snip]

1. The header <boost/detail/endian.hpp> sometimes gives incorrect results. As John Maddock has pointed out, some processors can be operated in both BE and LE mode. So it may be difficult to fix this problem.

[snip] Note that the Alpha processor can operate in big or little endian mode, too. AFAIK, Tru64/Alpha always uses little endian. But I have no idea about Linux/Alpha, for example. Anyway, I think it's fairly safe to assume fixed endianess given a specific CPU _and_ OS. Markus