5 Apr
2016
5 Apr
'16
3:48 a.m.
On 4/4/16 18:36, Gavin Lambert wrote:
There's no particular reason why the library couldn't also contain conversions for some specific non-IEEE floating point format, if one is sufficiently popular or appears in well-known file formats such that it might be useful.
And it could be extensible to other formats not representable in basic C++ types, such as rational numbers or quad precision floats. They just need a well-defined block-of-bytes representation and an equivalent C++ class.
Expect that we would no longer be talking endianess and those conversions in a Boost.Endian library would be odd at best. michael -- Michael Caisse Ciere Consulting ciere.com