Re: Serialization of binary floating point numbers

["J. Lewis Muir" <jlmuir%imca-cat.org@localhost>]

On 05/17, Sad Clouds wrote:
> A bit of a random question/thought - what is a good and portable method
> of storing/transmitting binary floating point numbers?

Maybe heavier than you'd like, but Protocol Buffers has a double type:

  https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#scalar

Another possibility is XDR which has IEEE float and IEEE double types:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Data_Representation

Lewis