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From: Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch>
Subject: Re: fixed point types over an interface
Date: 1997/02/10
Date: 1997-02-10T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32FF352D.3EA1@elca-matrix.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.855364096@merv


> Two processors are communicating over an interface.  The
> applications for each processor are written/compiled
> using compilers from two different vendors.

> To pin this down, you need to use a Small clause and a Size clause,
> then you should be pretty safe relying on the result, although one
> can imagine compilers doing weird things.

You may also run into big endian/little endian problems. If performance
is not a problem, passing the data in text representation will always
work and be portable.




  reply	other threads:[~1997-02-10  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-02-07  0:00 fixed point types over an interface Allen Krell
1997-02-07  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-02-07  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-10  0:00   ` Mats Weber [this message]
1997-02-10  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-11  0:00       ` nassera
1997-02-12  0:00         ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-02-12  0:00   ` Laurent Pautet
1997-02-12  0:00   ` Laurent Pautet
1997-02-12  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-12  0:00       ` Mats Weber
1997-02-17  0:00     ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
1997-02-18  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-12  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-13  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
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