Floats in the protocol

Simon Thum simon.thum at gmx.de
Wed Jan 7 05:10:24 PST 2009


>>> 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.
>>
> 
[...]
> KISS: let's go with IEEE....
>                               - Jim
I'd say that is settled. In the input prop case, there will probably be
a single junction (at least on the server-side) which could be used to
check for bombs should issues arise.




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