From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: Endianness independance
Date: 05 Mar 2003 20:16:33 +0000
Date: 2003-03-05T20:16:33+00:00 [thread overview]
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"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?
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2003-03-05 17:49 Endianness independance David C. Hoos
2003-03-05 20:16 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2003-03-05 21:58 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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2003-03-04 12:46 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2003-03-04 16:38 ` John Harbaugh
2003-03-04 21:25 ` Simon Wright
2003-03-05 17:28 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-03-05 20:15 ` Simon Wright
2003-03-05 21:54 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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2003-03-04 11:34 Lionel.DRAGHI
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2003-03-03 18:38 ` David C. Hoos
2003-03-03 17:52 Lionel.DRAGHI
2003-03-03 20:29 ` Pascal Obry
2003-03-03 13:33 Lionel.DRAGHI
2003-03-03 16:11 ` Stephen Leake
2003-02-28 17:21 Lionel.DRAGHI
2003-02-28 20:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-02-28 15:11 Lionel.DRAGHI
2003-02-28 16:10 ` Stephen Leake
2003-02-28 18:26 ` Marin David Condic
2003-03-01 10:48 ` Amir Yantimirov
2003-03-01 12:00 ` Simon Wright
2003-03-01 12:53 ` Jeffrey Creem
2003-03-01 17:26 ` Simon Wright
2003-03-01 12:47 ` Marin David Condic
2003-03-02 9:49 ` Amir Yantimirov
2003-03-03 13:29 ` Marin David Condic
2003-03-03 16:05 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-03 17:50 ` Marin David Condic
2003-03-04 2:33 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-03-04 17:50 ` Stephen Leake
2003-03-05 2:15 ` Jeffrey Carter
2003-03-05 17:37 ` Stephen Leake
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