# New Ticket Created by Leopold Toetsch # Please include the string: [perl #37461] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=37461 >
Parrot bytecode (PBC) is designed to be portable. Therefore we need some code to convert ARM-generated PBCs to machine-native doubles and ARM architectures must be able to read other already supported float types. A PBC header has a 'floattype' field, which identifies known FLOATVAL layouts. We have currently: 0 ... 8 byte IEEE double 1 ... 12 byte IEEE double (both according to endianess) We need additionally (at least and AFAIK): 2 ... 8 byte (ARM) mixed-endian which is according to Nicholas a LE double with 2 BE arranged words. See also: src/packf*.c, pf/pf_items.c, t/native_pbc/number.t ... Takers welcome, leo
