This tag describes the number encoding as floating point.
Attributes
The following table lists the valid attributes
for this tag:
Attribute |
Description |
Valid Values |
• bigEndian |
Indicates whether a number is big or little endian |
You must specify one of the following attributes: - true : when the byte representation of a number is
ordered from the most significant byte to the least significant byte
- false : when the byte representation of a number is
ordered from the least significant byte to most significant byte
|
floatType |
Type of floating point data |
You must specify one of the following attributes: - unspecified : Float type is not specified.
- ieeeExtendedIntel : The representation of 128 bit
floating point data is as defined by the Intel™ architecture double extended-precision
format
- ieeeExtendedAIX : The representation of 128 bit floating
point data is as defined by the IBM® AIX® architecture
- ieeeExtendedOS390 : The representation of floating
point data is as defined in the IBM System/390® Priniciples of Operation
as IEEE Quadrupule-Precision (BFP).
- ieeeExtendedAS400 : The representation of floating
point data is as defined by the IBM AS/400® architecture as IEEE Quadrupule-Precision
- ieeeNonExtended : he representation of floating point
data is as defined by the IEEE standard 754
- ibm390Hex: The representation of floating point data
is as defined in the IBM System/390 Priniciples of Operation as IBM Hexadecimal
Format (HFP).
- ibm400Hex: The representation of floating point data
is as defined by the IBM AS/400 architecture as IBM Hexadecimal Format
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