-----Original Message----- From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Bjorn Reese Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:58 PM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] Specific-Width Floating-Point Typedefs
On 2013-03-28 13:28, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
There has recently been some discussion on improving portability of programs using floating-point.
A common use case for fixed-length floats that you do not mention explicitly in your document is the exchange of floats over binary network protocols, such as the Google Protocol Buffer [1] or Message Pack [2]. Here the concern is not so much about the fidelity of calculations, but rather to have a common binary representation of floats. It may be worth adding this use case.
[1] https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/encoding [2] http://wiki.msgpack.org/display/MSGPACK/Format+specification
Thanks - this is indeed another use case that we will reference.
PS: Many of the links in the html document are broken.
Thanks too for reporting this - missing files now added to SVN and committed. Paul --- Paul A. Bristow, Prizet Farmhouse, Kendal LA8 8AB UK +44 1539 561830 07714330204 pbristow@hetp.u-net.com