This tag describes the number encoding as a 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
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| 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 Quadruple-Precision (BFP).
- ieeeExtendedAS400 : The representation of
floating point data is as defined by the IBM AS/400® architecture
as IEEE Quadruple-Precision
- ieeeNonExtended : The 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 Principles
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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