Hi,

At Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:12:32 +0900,
Brian Palmer wrote in [ruby-talk:201018]:
> Yes, that's a biggie. I didn't realize that ruby compiled on non-IEEE  
> machines, but it makes sense now that I think about it. I think this  
> is out of my league, I suppose it would require integrating a  
> floating-point emulation library into ruby on such platforms, and  
> having that library handle the packing/marshaling, or even using that  
> library to back all Float objects on such platforms. I think that for  
> my purposes it makes more sense to just write a separate Marshal-type  
> extension library, since I only plan to target IA32, IA64 and Apple  
> G4/G5.

What's the reason of your proposal?

If it is for precision issue, rather I'd suppose to represent
floating points in hexadecimal format.

-- 
Nobu Nakada