02-11-2011
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Originally Posted by
Corona688
bitwise operators -- on floating point numbers? You're assuming certain formats and endian-nesses of floats, and having to do pointer typecast tricks to get at the bits at all.
Why would endianness matter if program is run on the same machine it is compiled on...and all follow the IEEE format on unix/linux flavors.
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