Universal LLVS Plane File Format

Robert Heller

January 9, 2023

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Abstract:

This document describes the format of LLVS plane files in a multi-architecture environment. The plane files support different byte orders and different floating point formats. A given machine will write planes using its ``native'' format and read planes written by other machines, doing whatever converesions needed to produce an in-core representation of the data in native form.

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