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Author	aurel32
Recipients	aurel32, doko, loewis, tim.peters
Date	2008年07月22日.09:04:07
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AFAIK, this "mixed-endian" format is only used on little endian ARM (old-ABI only). That is true that IEEE 754 does not specify any format. I used the big and little endian code as a template to add the "ARM format", hence IEEE in the name. "mixed-endian" is the term usually used to describe this format in the ARM community. I am not opposed to any other name. OTOH, if you consider that IEEE does not specify any format, "IEEE, little-endian" and "IEEE, big-endian" are also not correct.

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AFAIK, this "mixed-endian" format is only used on little endian ARM 
(old-ABI only). 
That is true that IEEE 754 does not specify any format. I used the big 
and little endian code as a template to add the "ARM format", hence 
IEEE in the name. "mixed-endian" is the term usually used to describe 
this format in the ARM community. I am not opposed to any other name.
OTOH, if you consider that IEEE does not specify any format, "IEEE, 
little-endian" and "IEEE, big-endian" are also not correct.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008年07月22日 09:04:09	aurel32	set	spambayes_score: 9.61784e-05 -> 9.617842e-05 recipients: + aurel32, tim.peters, loewis, doko
2008年07月22日 09:04:08	aurel32	set	spambayes_score: 9.61784e-05 -> 9.61784e-05 messageid: <1216717448.7.0.41011111107.issue1762561@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2008年07月22日 09:04:07	aurel32	link	issue1762561 messages
2008年07月22日 09:04:07	aurel32	create

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