220 7069 article Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bo Persson Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals Subject: Re: Comments on n3783: Network byte order Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 14:08:41 +0200 Lines: 30 Approved: news@gmane.org Message-ID: References: <93515540-54a8-442e-8314-954583f13600@isocpp.org> <524EB9E1.2070001@gmx.de> <24076dd7-4b72-4395-980f-2447018b9747@isocpp.org> <52514B8C.50501@gmx.de> Reply-To: std-proposals@isocpp.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381061335 2459 80.91.229.3 (6 Oct 2013 12:08:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 12:08:55 +0000 (UTC) To: std-proposals@isocpp.org Original-X-From: std-proposals+bncBCZ6RLW3UIKBBWFFYWJAKGQEM5XBJKA@isocpp.org Sun Oct 06 14:08:59 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mail-la0-f71.google.com ([209.85.215.71]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VSn8r-0004Fq-Nu for gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 14:08:57 +0200 Original-Received: by mail-la0-f71.google.com with SMTP id eo20sf7714594lab.6 for ; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 05:08:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=to:from:subject:date:lines:message-id:references:mime-version :user-agent:in-reply-to:x-original-sender :x-original-authentication-results:reply-to:precedence:mailing-list :list-id:list-post:list-help:list-archive:list-subscribe :list-unsubscribe:content-type; bh=9sM6+xWvlEvQKmTwDuNtLh7cg+Z8LVCuytoBUoIoAlk=; b=gFn0/3BbiILq0OUtbZmQ76K4bN3tWWuw7ZEhfSk2N/tRGcRPGJnPq3BrqaC+nBiu08 ACfBb/lTON5BTamvxWUWO2/GUdVaogyD2Runsv9sOYNivBNpXUe3TnDkEZdZtpVdGvJP AhmM3jK8Ga3QIisCEXGO6gTw7mPQSLHBZXsrgEzVJ9uREtvo+m0TUuq60OwIBFZyeO6M /q9Jq02YBoJE5ug9eOFUv0PoZ/Iu3NR/i7Rp7jQcB/4++1TIyi4ST/8ibtlS9gW6b8Sg t20luGSgCNVdYCxiXipDCaiT8Tu3N1anVzCqt3ou0xXkE5W+MrqDZ3cW0Mxv+7gGKwgx ccWQ== X-Received: by 10.152.21.165 with SMTP id w5mr6991374lae.3.1381061336989; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 05:08:56 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: std-proposals@isocpp.org Original-Received: by 10.152.3.168 with SMTP id d8ls163761lad.59.gmail; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 05:08:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.152.203.233 with SMTP id kt9mr1430840lac.29.1381061334675; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 05:08:54 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org. [80.91.229.3]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d5si10002122laf.120.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 06 Oct 2013 05:08:54 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) client-ip=80.91.229.3; Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VSn8m-0004D8-RG for std-proposals@isocpp.org; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 14:08:52 +0200 Original-Received: from c193-14-6-157.cust.tele2.se ([193.14.6.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 14:08:52 +0200 Original-Received: from bop by c193-14-6-157.cust.tele2.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Oct 2013 14:08:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c193-14-6-157.cust.tele2.se User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 In-Reply-To: <52514B8C.50501@gmx.de> X-Original-Sender: gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org X-Original-Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org designates 80.91.229.3 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=gclcip-std-proposals@m.gmane.org Precedence: list Mailing-list: list std-proposals@isocpp.org; contact std-proposals+owners@isocpp.org List-ID: X-Google-Group-Id: 399137483710 List-Post: , List-Help: , List-Archive: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.lang.c++.isocpp.proposals:7069 Archived-At: Markus Mayer wrote 2013-10-06 13:37: > > A quick look at wikipedia revels the following: > 'However, on modern standard computers (i.e., implementing IEEE 754), > one may in practice safely assume that the endianness is the same for > floating point numbers as for integers, making the conversion > straightforward regardless of data type. (Small embedded systems using > special floating point formats may be another matter however.)' > > I am not sure if we should cover that case, Another "modern" computer that doesn't use IEEE floating point by default is IBM mainframes (zSeries). That's a rather important platform that a language standard shouldn't neglect. Bo Persson -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ISO C++ Standard - Future Proposals" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to std-proposals+unsubscribe@isocpp.org. To post to this group, send email to std-proposals@isocpp.org. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/group/std-proposals/. .