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| author | Jens Geyer <jensg@apache.org> | 2019-12-03 23:28:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Jens Geyer <jensg@apache.org> | 2019-12-03 23:28:18 +0100 |
| commit | 450bc69248043f0ea5ca336d786583ebf3e9d826 (patch) | |
| tree | 92183d2c6a558e2db71afc83190e2c5aad3d3353 /doc | |
| parent | 1e049101c580fd2dfd044cb00e2489090199cf0a (diff) | |
| download | thrift-450bc69248043f0ea5ca336d786583ebf3e9d826.tar.gz | |
THRIFT-4915 Deserializing double into OrderedFloat always returns zero when using TCompactProtocol
Documentation fix
Patch: Jens Geyer
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/specs/thrift-compact-protocol.md | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/specs/thrift-compact-protocol.md b/doc/specs/thrift-compact-protocol.md index 02467dd19..6be2a62f8 100644 --- a/doc/specs/thrift-compact-protocol.md +++ b/doc/specs/thrift-compact-protocol.md @@ -97,8 +97,9 @@ Where: ### Double encoding Values of type `double` are first converted to an int64 according to the IEEE 754 floating-point "double format" bit -layout. Most run-times provide a library to make this conversion. Both the binary protocol as the compact protocol then -encode the int64 in 8 bytes in big endian order. +layout. Most run-times provide a library to make this conversion. But while the binary protocol encodes the int64 +in 8 bytes in big endian order, the compact protocol encodes it in little endian order - this is due to an early +implementation bug that finally became the de-facto standard. ### Boolean encoding |