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| -rw-r--r-- | erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml index ca55c6233c..4721747097 100644 --- a/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml +++ b/erts/doc/src/erl_ext_dist.xml @@ -367,8 +367,9 @@ </row> <tcaption>FLOAT_EXT</tcaption></table> <p> - A float is stored in string format. The format used in sprintf to - format the float is "%.20e" + A finite float (i.e. not inf, -inf or NaN) is stored in + string format. The format used in sprintf to format the + float is "%.20e" (there are more bytes allocated than necessary). To unpack the float, use sscanf with format "%lf". </p> @@ -983,7 +984,8 @@ </row> <tcaption>NEW_FLOAT_EXT</tcaption></table> <p> - A float is stored as 8 bytes in big-endian IEEE format. + A finite float (i.e. not inf, -inf or NaN) is stored as 8 bytes + in big-endian IEEE format. </p> <p> This term is used in minor version 1 of the external format. |