[MPlayer-dev-eng] Flaoting point endianness??

Zoltan Hidvegi mplayer at hzoli.2y.net
Sun Mar 6 22:55:13 CET 2005


Ville Saari wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 02:59:46PM -0600, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
> 
> > I think the definition of little-endian float is that the MSB of the
> > first byte is the sign, the exponent is in the first bytes, and the
> > least significant part of the mantissa is the last byte.
> 
> That's the definition of the big-endian float.

Maybe.  That would seem to be logical for me, but I've read somewhere
that it's the opposite.  But the term we use to call it does not
really matter as long as we agree on the layout.

Zoli




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