BCS wrote:
Hello Don,
BCS wrote:
Hello Don,
It's going to be implementation defined behaviour (will depend on
endianness)
Does that matter if the members are the same size?
Definitely -- you'll grab the part of the mantissa, instead of the
exponent.
How would that work? Can a system store ints big-endian and floats
little-endian?
Not sure. My limited understanding is that with on PowerPC, Altivec can
use big-endian floats, even when the PPC is set to little-endian mode.
Could be wrong, though.
In any case, for 80-bit reals, there is no int which is the same size.
