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| author | Mike Sperber <[email protected]> | 2012-03-22 18:00:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Mike Sperber <[email protected]> | 2012-03-23 09:15:19 +0100 |
| commit | 933e701dac1936c6f15c765b5687fbc623464ec7 (patch) | |
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Unbreak floating point on middle-endian machines.
On some ARMs (and maybe other platforms), doubles are stored with the
the two 32-bit words reversed with respect to more common
architectures.
The symptom is this:
> io_lib:write(1.0).
"0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005299808824"
Detect that and account for it when decoding floats.
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