31 Jan
2015
31 Jan
'15
5:42 a.m.
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Cliff Green <cliffg@codewrangler.net> wrote:
I'm still not sure what to suggest to Beman for the Endian library wrt to float and double API's, specially as this library could or should be the basis for a standardization proposal. Integers are completely safe and well-defined for swapping - all bit patterns form valid integers and swapping bytes never result in "special" hardware processing.
I don't think that it actually guaranteed (it is only guaranteed for unsigned char). It is fine for 2s-compliment, but for endian in the standard, other integer representations need to be taken into account. Tony