[MPlayer-cvslog] CVS: main/libmpdemux ebml.c,1.4,1.5

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Tuesday 19 July 2005 23:14, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > long double itself is not portable!!! the IEEE spec only specifies lower
> > bounds on the precission, i doubt that the x86 long double can be read by
> > any non x86 system with the union hack, though i didnt try ...
>
> I'm for banning floating point, it's just too ugly *g*. Well, actually
> it's just annonying that they decided to allow it in matroska (I think we
> have that problem really nowhere else).

seems so, 4xm and flv use IEEE floats but not long doubles ...


>
> > nowhere, the format and bit ordering the cpu uses internally for its
> > floating point variables has no effect at all on the av_*2*() code, it
> > would even work if sizeof(float) != 4
>
> Ok, saw that after reading it more closely. But the input if the int2*
> function is in host endianness, and normal bswap will work, right?

yes

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Michael