At 2:30 AM -0400 5/5/02, Melvin Smith wrote:
>I have a patch almost complete that makes Parrot handle bytecode
>files across platforms (does endian and wordsize transform), but there is
>one glaring non-portability, and that is that we are storing floating point
>constants in native format.
>
>We need to discuss how we want to portably store these (I propose
>as a string) so I can finish up this patch.
Don't use a string. Add the float type as a field in the header, and
store it as native. Pretty much everything uses, or can handle, IEEE
floats. I don't see any compelling reason to toss away the efficiency
of native storage for something like this.
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