[erlang-patches] Fix matching floating point on middle-endian machines

[Fredrik]

On 06/14/2013 05:22 PM, Johannes Weißl wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I found and fixed three other occurrences in the code base where the
> endianness of doubles matters. After two weeks of testing I'm now fairly
> confident that Erlang runs fine on our platform.
>
> All four commits have been pushed to a new branch:
>
> git fetch git://github.com/weisslj/otp.git fix-float-middle-endian
>
> https://github.com/weisslj/otp/compare/erlang:maint...fix-float-middle-endian
> https://github.com/weisslj/otp/compare/erlang:maint...fix-float-middle-endian.patch
>
> Greetings,
>
> Johannes Weißl
>
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:07:10AM +0200, Johannes Weißl wrote:
>> This patch fixes matching of floating point numbers on middle-endian
>> platforms (ARM in my case). The error can be reproduced in QEMU using
>> this image: http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/
>> It builds up on Mike Sperbers patch (OTP-10209). Without this patch, the
>> float matching tests in bs_match_misc_SUITE fail.
>>
>> Here is a simple error example:
>> 1>  <<_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_>>  =<<1.25/float>>.
>> <<63,244,0,0,0,0,0,0>>
>> 2>  <<1.25/float>>  =<<63,244,0,0,0,0,0,0>>.
>> ** exception error: no match of right hand side value<<63,244,0,0,0,0,0,0>>
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Hello,
Fetched your patch and assigned it to be reviewed by the responsible team.
Thanks,

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BR Fredrik Gustafsson
Erlang OTP Team