On 08/30/2011 07:58 AM, Steven Simpson wrote: > Hi Ben, all, > > It's been pointed out to me that there are no floating-point types > supported by XrlAtom, and we might need them in the ECODE project. Has > there been any plan for adding them? How far did it get? What stopped it? > > I've gone through the motions of adding an fp64 type, conforming to > IEEE754 binary64, so it should be able to transmit NaN and signed > zero/infinity. It maps to an alias fp64_t, which is either double or > long double. The implementation uses only C99 functions, so that should > avoid introducing new dependencies. > > I've introduced<libxipc/fp64.h> which chooses the fp64_t alias, and > <libxipc/fp64serial.h> which provides C functions for converting between > fp64_t and uint_fast64_t. They should not need to be accessed directly > by user code, as xrl_atom.hh handles it. > > The algorithm has been tested in isolation, but I haven't made a start > yet on an integrated test - I guess something in libxipc/tests would be > appropriate. From what I recall, enable_tests=True is required for > programs in there. > > Let me know if that sounds up to scratch, and I'll send you the patch > when I have the tests in place.
Sounds good to me. Thanks, Ben > > Cheers, > > Steven > > _______________________________________________ > Xorp-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/xorp-hackers -- Ben Greear <[email protected]> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com _______________________________________________ Xorp-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/xorp-hackers
