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diff --git a/TextFormat.md b/TextFormat.md index 4bb9b3a..6619f6f 100644 --- a/TextFormat.md +++ b/TextFormat.md @@ -23,3 +23,13 @@ assembly languages have). There is no requirement to use JavaScript syntax; this format is not intended to be evaluated or translated directly into JavaScript. + +The text format isn't uniquely representable. Multiple textual files can assemble +to the same binary file, for example whitespace isn't relevant and memory initialization +can be broken out into smaller pieces in the text format. + +The text format is precise in that values that cannot be accurately represented in the +binary format are considered invalid text. Floating-point numbers are therefore +represented as hexadecimal floating-point as specified by the C99 standard, which +IEEE-754-2008 section 5.12.3 also specifies. The textual format may be improved to also +support more human-readable representations, but never at the cost of accurate representation. |