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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients benjamin.peterson, ezio.melotti, hieu.nguyen, mark.dickinson
Date 2012-10-26.17:55:45
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What use-cases did you have in mind for this?  (I assume that something motivated this report.)

It seems to me that there's not actually much to say about the float format:  the only format that Python realistically supports these days is the IEEE 754 binary64 format.  (In theory we still support whatever C uses, but in practice I suspect that if we were ever to manage to run Python on a machine whose C doubles *weren't* in binary64 format, we'd see quite a lot of breakage.)

So the only variation that we'll see is little-endian versus big-endian.  We don't even support the ARM OABI mixed-endian format.  Should endianness be considered an important part of the format?
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