>>>>> "David" == David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
    >> I am having a doubt whether on sending between
    >> little endian and big endian machines floats have also
    >> to be converted like int (ntohl) or they are not to be
    >> converted.

    David> They will almost certainly need to be converted.
    David> In many cases reversing all the bytes will suffice,
    David> however some architectures (eg arm) use a mixed
    David> byte ordering for floats, others may use a non-standard
    David> encoding.

  I thought that float representation varried rather a lot between
processors. The number of bits of mantissa, etc.

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