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Re: floating point library problems ...

To: Greg Shubin <gshubin at sonic dot net>
Subject: Re: floating point library problems ...
From: Philip Blundell <philb at gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:27:51 +0100
cc: crossgcc at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <MIEMKFFHIDIPDFPKBGPGIEFKCHAA.ken@sdt.be> <39C0B72C.C8416A68@virata.com> <39C101EF.F7A253BE@sonic.net>

>I saw this in basetype.h for ARM. At first I thougth it might be an error. 
>THis could cause some serious confusion. It's hard enough to decipher 
>little-endian in a memory dump, but big-little-endian is just too strange. 
>Is it a standard convention in the ARM world?

Pretty much, at least for the "FPA" ARM floating point implementation.
It results from a historical accident sometime in the late '80s.

I think newer ARM processors (ARM10 and so on) use a more standard format.

p.



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