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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Floating-point serialization is platform-specific but works on modern standard computers","articleBody":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Floating_point\r\n\r\n\u003e However, on modern standard computers (i.e., implementing IEEE 754), one may in practice safely assume that the endianness is the same for floating-point numbers as for integers, making the conversion straightforward regardless of data type\r\n\r\nigbinary_unserialize_double/igbinary_serialize_double\r\n\r\nFiling this to document it, though no bugs were reported\r\n\r\n```c\r\n/** Serializes double. */\r\ninline static int igbinary_serialize_double(struct igbinary_serialize_data *igsd, double d) {\r\n\tunion {\r\n\t\tdouble d;\r\n\t\tuint64_t u;\r\n\t} u;\r\n\r\n\tu.d = d;\r\n\r\n\treturn igbinary_serialize8_and_64(igsd, igbinary_type_double, u.u);\r\n}\r\n```","author":{"url":"https://github.com/TysonAndre","@type":"Person","name":"TysonAndre"},"datePublished":"2022-02-14T13:44:07.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/356/igbinary/issues/356"}