[Xapian-discuss] sort by value fails

[James Aylett]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:44:35PM +0200, Dr.BYTE at web.de wrote:

> thank you for your reply. if i see correctly, i will have to write a
> serializer method which converts è to e and Ö to Oe and so far.
> is it possible, that sort by value cannot sort floats correctly,
> too? i never workt with C, so i dont know how memcmp compares
> floats.

You want to serialise floats as well. There's a
serialise_double/unserialise_double pair in Xapian, but I believe it's
not accessible externally. However you could reuse the code.

J

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