Re: ... replacement for 14.4 and C6.2 (interchange encodings)
Vincent,
> > Export and import of interchange formats normally occurs as a stream
> > of octets (8-bit bytes), e.g. in a file or a network packet. There
> > is therefore a need to define the mapping of the conceptual Level 4
> > bit strings (as specified by 754-2008) and of the small integers used
> > to encode decorations (out of scope for 754-2008) into a sequence of
> > octets. There is also the fact that 754-2008 defines two distinct
> > encodings of decimal formats, called BID and DPD.
>
> I don't think that you want to do that (convert bit strings),
> otherwise (inf,sup) could be reversed by the change of endianness
> on the bit string. The endianness should apply on words (thus this
> is a conversion from the Level 3 representation), not on the whole
> bit string.
The conversion of interval encoding doesn't not necessarily reversing entire octet sequence.
It reverses subsequence related to inf and subsequence related to sup.
I thought that usualy encoding of floating-point datum is reverted as a whole.
If this is not true and it is reverted by words, there is a word "mixed-endian"
later in the text.
-Dima