[erlang-questions] ERL_FLOAT_EXT

[Kenneth Lundin]

I meant that new versions of ei can use NEW_FLOAT_EXT and don't need
to support the
ERL_FLOAT_EXT format at all.

/Kenneth

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Serge Aleynikov <serge@REDACTED> wrote:
> 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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