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

[Deano]

Whilst you are right, there are plenty of non IEEE754 systems (probably more
than compliant) non will be running illumos for the foreseeable future. Any
conversion work to these platforms will have many other portability issues
and so that need not be a big concern as long as the appropriate comment is
added to the source code imho.

Deano

-----Original Message-----
From: Joerg Schilling [mailto:Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de] 
Sent: 31 January 2011 15:00
To: jason.brian.king at gmail.com; gordon.w.ross at gmail.com
Cc: developer at lists.illumos.org
Subject: Re: [illumos-Developer] Ugh... xdr_{float,double} problems

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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