Re: [Algorithms] Network & byte order.

[Pierre T. <p.t...@wa...>]

On a related note.....

I once had a very bad surprise with floats as well - this is not a problem
limited to byte order. I was saving floating point values to a binary file
on a PC, and using the said binary file on a DEC Alpha. I always got
immediate violent crashes until I figured out the Alpha was not using IEEE
floats, but a nasty hybrid format where the last 16 bits of the mantissa are
actually the 16 most significant bits (due to historical compatibility
reasons when they switched from 16bits to 32bits floats). In other words,
this was not a byte order but a word order problem regarding floating point
values :)

Pierre