Storing safely floating p. num. in binary fmt

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Does the C floating point number is architecture (big/little endian) independent?

Or I have to do sth. like this:

double theNumber = number2write;
int32 *conv;
conv = &theNumber;
*conv = swap_2_BE_if_needed(*conv);
conv++;
*conv = swap_2_BE_if_needed(*conv);
conv--;
fwrite(conv, 4, 2, myFile);

and reverse when I read the number?

  Pawel

[Nobody/Anonymous]

C is architecture DEPENDENT.

If you need architecture independence, you can try programming in Java instead...