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Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:40:57AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
>
> > Does ARM store doubles in a non-IEEE way? Is it secretly big-endian for
> > its float/double emulation, and little-endian for ints? What else could
> > be wrong with mozilla's assumptions about double format?
>
> I suspect you've found mozilla's bug. ARM doubles are mixed endian.
>
> IIRC the bits in the 32 bit words are stored little endian as you would
> expect, but the words are ordered big endian in memory.
> (At least for the ABI that Debian uses)
>
> (I will be corrected if I have this the wrong way round)
> Also IIRC this is perfectly legal IEEE, just mighty odd.
That's correct, and it's true for all ARM platforms I'm aware of, so
use of the __arm__ predefine is valid for any special handling of this.
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