Hello people, I'm trying to get some consensus about floats on the wire. I cc'ed some who spoke about the issue on the list in a non-exhaustive search.
Recap: Peter and I want to transfer floats in input properties, see there: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-December/041647.html On XDS 08, Keith suggested simply putting them on the wire. That is, require IEEE756 32 bit and account for endianness. Roland suggested to drop the binary representation, and favored a string rep. specified in C99. He claims interchange of binary representations is unsafe due to platform details: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-December/041650.html While I see benefits of a string rep, X isn't C99 AFAIK. Also, the protocol in general is built on binary representations, so a string encoding seems somewhat odd to me. I don't actually need floats badly, but they're more natural than fixed. Comments/Suggestions please? _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
