Re: Interchange formats (was: NaI's as decorated empty sets)
On 2009-09-09 07:34:00 -0700, Dan Zuras Intervals wrote:
> The issue of endian-ness was still up in the air in 1985.
> There is mention of it in the 754 document (I forget just
> where) but I believe it was placed outside the scope of
> the document onto a memory standard. I seem to remember
> it being 1596.5 but I can't be sure after all these years.
I don't think that a memory standard. If a datum fits on several
words (such a binary64 on 32-bit machines), there are still two
possibilities to order the words. This particular case led to
3 existing formats in memory for binary64.
Also, what about internal padding bytes for alignment purpose on
specific machines?
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