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new 450bc69 THRIFT-4915 Deserializing double into OrderedFloat always
returns zero when using TCompactProtocol Documentation fix Patch: Jens Geyer
450bc69 is described below
commit 450bc69248043f0ea5ca336d786583ebf3e9d826
Author: Jens Geyer <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Dec 3 23:28:03 2019 +0100
THRIFT-4915 Deserializing double into OrderedFloat always returns zero when
using TCompactProtocol
Documentation fix
Patch: Jens Geyer
---
doc/specs/thrift-compact-protocol.md | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/specs/thrift-compact-protocol.md
b/doc/specs/thrift-compact-protocol.md
index 02467dd..6be2a62 100644
--- a/doc/specs/thrift-compact-protocol.md
+++ b/doc/specs/thrift-compact-protocol.md
@@ -97,8 +97,9 @@ Where:
### Double encoding
Values of type `double` are first converted to an int64 according to the IEEE
754 floating-point "double format" bit
-layout. Most run-times provide a library to make this conversion. Both the
binary protocol as the compact protocol then
-encode the int64 in 8 bytes in big endian order.
+layout. Most run-times provide a library to make this conversion. But while
the binary protocol encodes the int64
+in 8 bytes in big endian order, the compact protocol encodes it in little
endian order - this is due to an early
+implementation bug that finally became the de-facto standard.
### Boolean encoding
