From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-04-18T15:17:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Roundoff problem with Float and Marshal

Hi,

At Fri, 18 Apr 2003 15:00:58 +0900,
Park Heesob wrote:
> > I'd tried C99 style hexadecimal float.  I expect this is
> > portable (except for depending on frexp() and ldexp()), but
> > could not be loaded by current version.
> >
> > But still, strtod() problem remains.
> >
> >
> How about pack unpack method? Not Portable?

Packing float is not portable at all.

> For Float f,
>   f == [f].pack("G").unpack("G")[0]
> is always true.

True on same system.  "Portability" means, you can unmarshal a
data which was marshaled on another architecture.

-- 
Nobu Nakada