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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Little Endian -> Big Endian (Ada95 / GNAT),
 Whats with floating point types?
Date: 29 Feb 2004 16:32:52 +0000
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"Joachim Schr�er" <joachim.schroeer@web.de> writes:

> A short question:
> 
> It's not so simple with floating point types, just swapping bytes,
> or is it?  One has to swap all the bits or?
> Interfaces.IEEE_Float_32 has 1 bit sign, 23 bit mantissa and 8 bit
> exponent, Interfaces.IEEE_Float_64 has 1 bit sign, 52 bit mantissa
> and 11 bit exponent when I remember correctly.

Swapping seems to work just fine here ... even though if you look at
GNAT's xdr support it is much more complicated.

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Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.