HTTP/1.1 -1 Read error in cache disk data: SuccessContent-Type: text/tab-separated-values; charset="utf-8" Last-Modified: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 01:29:23 GMT Content-length: 1255 Connection: Close Proxy-Connection: Close X-Cache: HIT from web1.osuosl.org Server: ProxyTrack 0.5 (HTTrack 3.49.2) id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc lang patch platform 1251 handle ARM mixed-endian doubles jkeenan "This ticket moves discussion into Trac from [http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=37461 RT #37461]. Leopold Toetsch opened the ticket in October 2005: Parrot bytecode (PBC) is designed to be portable. Therefore we need some code to convert ARM-generated PBCs to machine-native doubles and ARM architectures must be able to read other already supported float types. A PBC header has a 'floattype' field, which identifies known FLOATVAL layouts. We have currently: 0 ... 8 byte IEEE double 1 ... 12 byte IEEE double (both according to endianess) We need additionally (at least and AFAIK): 2 ... 8 byte (ARM) mixed-endian which is according to Nicholas a LE double with 2 BE arranged words. And Nicholas Clark commented: and totally legal IEEE. (Mozilla thought that it could cheat. And it was wrong) The mixed endian is the old soft float, as I understand it, and will be replaced by something less surprising, but that's a C ABI change. ... and that's where things stand." todo new normal core 1.7.0 medium ,,website,,medium,fixed,,,,, n>