[erlang-questions] ERL_FLOAT_EXT

[Serge Aleynikov]

Thanks Kenneth!  I'll use the instructions for future patch submissions.
Steve Vinoski kindly offered his help to push this patch to github.

I am a little unclear on your note below - did you mean to say that new 
versions of ei can use NEW_FLOAT_EXT introduced in the patch, or that 
they should continue using ERL_FLOAT_EXT?  I assume it's the former.

Serge

On 5/28/2010 7:38 AM, Kenneth Lundin wrote:
> 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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