Re: Endianness independance

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Simon Wright wrote:
> "David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> writes:
>>Agreed.  However, at the end of the day, there is no solution at all
>>for communication between machines with differing ranges for the
>>exponent and mantissa, so the notion of platform independence must
>>have certain caveats about some details of the platforms which must
>>at least support some level of commonality.
> 
> No _general_ solution, but a limited solution is possible surely?

Certainly. At worst comes to worst, you can convert a value to
an exponential string format and exchange that. The XDR network format
was designed to be a bit more efficient than that however,
which is the only reason it is perhaps superior than string form.

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