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

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-17 07:00:55

Johan Råde wrote:
> Martin Bonner wrote:
>
>> Are there any operating systems which actually allow this, or is a
>> given processor/os combination a fixed endianness?
>
> That is an important question.
> Does anyone know of any OS / processor combination that does not have
> fixed endianness?

I'm not completely certain, but I believe HP-UX falls into this category: 
the idea is that you can pass binary data from one platform to another, and 
just switch the endianness bit to access it natively (think distributed 
applications).

John.