Floats in the protocol

[Simon Thum]

Walter Harms wrote:
> if floats are realy needed i would go with an already established like XDR
> it is already in glibc and it is a defined RFC.
Well, XDR simply states to use the IEEE representation. So I take this
as one more vote for IEEE.

At the XDR level, there seems to be an incompatibility between X and XDR
since XDR requires dword alignment (or that's what I got from it).

Regards,

Simon