On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 15:18 +0100, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > Besides being able to transfer floats with input properties, I'd like to see > the possibility to transfer strings as well > That would also give the possibility of using the workaround that Roland > suggested and encode floats (and basically anything else) by using strings.
X is a binary protocol using machine-native data representations. Converting things to string form is not consistent with the existing code base, and a source of confusion given the existing usage of IEEE floats in the GLX extension. > It's hard to believe for me that platforms interpret IEEE754 in so different > ways. Are there any more references where IEEE754 representation can go wrong > between different platforms? If there are, we should be fixing GLX to trap numbers which may cause problems then. Scanning an array for ill-formatted numbers seems far more efficient than converting the numbers to a new format. -- [email protected]
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