<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:34 PM Tim Shen <<a href="mailto:timshen@google.com">timshen@google.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 7:24 PM Gao, Yunzhong <<a href="mailto:yunzhong_gao@playstation.sony.com" target="_blank">yunzhong_gao@playstation.sony.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">According to <a href="http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi.html</a>,<br>
"The high-order double-precision value (the one that comes first in storage) must have the larger magnitude."<br>
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So the order of the two doubles in your fp128 is not affected by the endianness; although each individual double is.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Of this part it's pretty clear, so I guess my questions are, more specifically:</div><div>1) Why </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Eeh, sorry, premature email accidentally sent :(</div></div></div>