Floats in the protocol

[Keith Packard]

On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 13:41 +0100, Simon Thum wrote:

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

GLX already uses both 32 and 64 bit IEEE floats on the wire, so I don't
see any reason to use something different here.

I'd like to add floats to the render protocol as well, mostly for
matrices where fixed point values cause significant errors.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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