Re: Syntax/matching rule implementation - floating point numbers

[Lorenzo Pastrana <lorenzo.pastrana@happyend.fr>]

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 16:08 +0100, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Lorenzo Pastrana writes:
> > Don't expect too much from me until I get a little more experimented
> > with OpenLDAP and its implementation.
> 
> Good luck.

I guess I'll need some, my intuitions are wonderful, reality ...

> > I'll be looking for some way of memcmp-arable real scalar encoding to
> > see what's being done in networked games for example ...
> 
> Depending on your needs you could implement it without indexing support,
> or at least with only EQUALITY indexing support.

Actually this is where floats are inherently bat at ...

>   No need for memcmpable ordering.

This is where fixed point reals can come handy ...
I don't know what the applicable standard says about real numbers in
LDAP but from what you say my bet is fixed-point reals could fit
well ...

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