floating point library problems ...

[Philip Blundell]

>I saw this in basetype.h for ARM. At first I thougth it might be an error. 
>THis could cause some serious confusion. It's hard enough to decipher 
>little-endian in a memory dump, but big-little-endian is just too strange. 
>Is it a standard convention in the ARM world?

Pretty much, at least for the "FPA" ARM floating point implementation.
It results from a historical accident sometime in the late '80s.

I think newer ARM processors (ARM10 and so on) use a more standard format.

p.



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