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Subject: Re: V4 design issue: Should primitive data types have well defined precisions?
From: Marty Kraimer <[email protected]>
To: EPICS Core Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 06:38:26 -0500
I will argue that the answer should be yes.

epicsTypes is the proposed set of primitive types are well as proposed definition for string, array, and enum.

Without agreeing on a set of primitive data types, including the precision of each type, mismatches between data sources and consumers can easily occur.

Corba IDL, Java, and C# all use types short, int, long, float, and double but ALL define the exact precision for each. In fact they all use the sdame precision, i.e.

short 16 bits
int     32 bits
long  64 bits
float  32 bit IEEE float
double 64 bit IEEE float.

Marty


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Re: V4 design issue: Should primitive data types have well defined precisions? Benjamin Franksen
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hello world examples Marty Kraimer
Re: hello world examples Ralph Lange
Re: hello world examples Marty Kraimer
Re: hello world examples Ralph Lange
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