[gmpi] Re: MIDI: Common event coding
- From: "Martijn Sipkema" <m.j.w.sipkema@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:13:22 +0100
> > > > > { <address: index 6> <opcode: 2> <operand: float( 3500.9 )> }
> > > >
> > > > how do you idicate that the operand is going to be a float? Also, I'm
> > > > assuming that the value 3500.9 is guaranteed to be withing the bounds of
> > > > the parameter #6. Right?
> > >
> > > Do we also eventually need to specify the endianess and format of floats
> > > in
> > > these message fields?
> >
> > That seems something that the host should be able to do.
>
> For machine-local communications this is not neccesary, it will force
> plugins and hosts on some platforms to both convert out of thier native
> endianness nad back. On intel machines its pretty cheap (about 16 cycles),
> but not free and its uneccesary.
What I meant was that all data should be host-endian, i.e. the host converts
if necessary.
--ms
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