Hi Dmitry,

>> The next question is how to represent a double
> > (which data structure) in those information items.
>
> What about SLONG (float) and SINT64 (double), accordingly to the IEEE
> 754 storage layout?

If i'm correct this layout is often used by C++ compilers so i could easily dump the bytes in the stream, but is this
safe enough for all compilers we currently support?

Regards,
Arno Brinkman
ABVisie

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