Re: [boost] Optimized portable isnan, isfinite, fpclassify etc

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-13 04:02:48

Johan Råde wrote:

[snip]

> 1. The header <boost/detail/endian.hpp> sometimes gives incorrect 
> results. As John Maddock has pointed out, some processors can be 
> operated in both BE and LE mode. So it may be difficult to fix this 
> problem.

[snip]

Note that the Alpha processor can operate in big or little endian mode, 
too. AFAIK, Tru64/Alpha always uses little endian. But I have no idea about 
Linux/Alpha, for example. Anyway, I think it's fairly safe to assume fixed 
endianess given a specific CPU _and_ OS.

Markus