Floats in the protocol

[Sascha Hlusiak]

Hi,

> Recap: Peter and I want to transfer floats in input properties, see there:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-December/041647.html
Besides being able to transfer floats with input properties, I'd like to see 
the possibility to transfer strings as well
That would also give the possibility of using the workaround that Roland 
suggested and encode floats (and basically anything else) by using strings.

> On XDS 08, Keith suggested simply putting them on the wire. That is,
> require IEEE756 32 bit and account for endianness.
That seemed the most natural solution for me, too.

> Roland suggested to drop the binary representation, and favored a string
> rep. specified in C99. He claims interchange of binary representations
> is unsafe due to platform details:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-December/041650.html
It's hard to believe for me that platforms interpret IEEE754 in so different 
ways. Are there any more references where IEEE754 representation can go wrong 
between different platforms?

- Sascha
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