[erlang-questions] ERL_FLOAT_EXT

[Kenneth Lundin]

Hi Serge,

I recommend you to contribute the patch according to the instructions on GitHub
http://wiki.github.com/erlang/otp/submitting-patches

and to also provide new test cases, then it is very likely that we
will include it in the distribution.
Regarding the compatibility we don't think it is an issue any more. If
new versions of ei/erl_interface
always use the ERL_FLOAT_EXT format will be ok.

The number of contributions is continually increasing and it is much
easier for us if we
can handle all contributions in the same way. This is also beneficial
for the overall quality

/Kenneth Erlang/OTP Ericsson.

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Serge Aleynikov <serge@REDACTED> wrote:
> A while ago I submitted a patch for ei to support IEEE 754 double
> encoding/decoding compliant with ERL_FLOAT_EXT format.
>
> http://www.erlang.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi/3/256
>
> Is it possible for it to get included in the distribution?  The rationale is
> that the emulator supports compact encoding of doubles in external binary
> format, but ei doesn't.
>
> Serge
>
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