Hello great list! <br><br>I am a newcomer to Erlang, so perhaps this is an easy question:<br><br>If I send a java float to an Erlang process over TCP, I can match against the resulting four bytes with<br>something like <br>
<br><<FloatNumberFromJava:32/signed-big-float>><br><br>This seems to indicate that Erlang and Java floating point formats are the same<br>(at least for my setup which is Erlang 5.5.4, java 1.5 on an Intel/Linux box), which is
<br>IEEE 754:<br><a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/typesValues.html#4.2.3">http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/typesValues.html#4.2.3</a><br><br>My question is, can this be reliably depended on to work across all versions
<br>of Erlang and java and all supported architectures? Are the floating point formats<br>always guaranteed to be in sync?<br><br><br>Thanks,<br>Dave<br>