[illumos-Developer] Ugh... xdr_{float,double} problems

[Joerg Schilling]

Jason King <jason.brian.king at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not a big deal.. one of the downsides of online communication is
> sometimes things don't always come through that might in person..
>
> I'm tempted to just drop the code completely.  Are there any platforms
> in widespread use today that don't use IEEE 754?  The code suggests
> that as far back as 1985, vax was the only one that didn't.  If there
> is, my guess is that there's probably going to be code specific for
> that platform that's going to be more accurate and faster to translate
> anyway.

If you have a FP hardware in the system, you may be right.

There are however embedded systems that may use a different implementation for 
performance reasons - so I am not sue whether your assumption is correct.

Jörg

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