[erlang-questions] OTP float error on ARM

Bjorn Gustavsson bgustavsson@REDACTED
Thu Oct 16 08:28:52 CEST 2008


 Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Bob Ippolito <bob@REDACTED> wrote:

> Well, the float type in Erlang binaries by itself is big endian, not
> native endian. This is a bug in Erlang.
>

This is not a bug. The default for numeric types is big endian. If you want
native endian, you must say so:

<<F/native-float>>

/Bjorn

-- 
Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
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