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Re: Serialization of binary floating point numbers



On Fri 17 May 2019 at 17:37:45 +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> 1. Make sure software always built to use IEEE 754 format.

For VAX, you would need to do some work there, since it natively uses a
different floating point format. It is the canonical example for that,
these days :-) I'm not up to date on whether there are math libraries
available that do ise IEEE soft-float.

-Olaf.
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