[erlang-questions] erlang vs java floating point format

[Dave Rafkind]

Hello great list!

I am a newcomer to Erlang, so perhaps this is an easy question:

If I send a java float to an Erlang process over TCP, I can match against
the resulting four bytes with
something like

<<FloatNumberFromJava:32/signed-big-float>>

This seems to indicate that Erlang and Java floating point formats are the
same
(at least for my setup which is Erlang 5.5.4, java 1.5 on an Intel/Linux
box), which is
IEEE 754:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/typesValues.html#4.2.3

My question is, can this be reliably depended on to work across all versions
of Erlang and java and all supported architectures? Are the floating point
formats
always guaranteed to be in sync?


Thanks,
Dave
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