[Xcb] FLOAT32 && FLOAT64

Barton C Massey bart at cs.pdx.edu
Wed Apr 6 07:28:39 PDT 2005


I'm guessing one of the extensions Jeremy is working on uses
floats, in which case it probably makes sense to add them to
XCB-XML.  It seems to me it should be straightforward for
Josh to do so.

	Bart

In message <1112795660.5390.6.camel at localhost.localdomain> you wrote:
> Given that Xlib currently does not have floats in its interfaces (I
> think, unless Xcms does), I don't see the point in adding them until we
> have to deal with floating point frame buffers (which will likely be in
> the next few years).  And at that point, the formats may or may not
> resemble normal IEEE formats, depending on circumstances....
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 				- Jim
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 23:42 -0400, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> > Can we add these as basic types?
> > 
> > Jeremy
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