@type-descriptor.float-td

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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