Hi! As seen in [1], aspell has a rather unfortunate design limitation in its compiled dictionary format. This not only makes it impossible to share these files between systems with different endianness, but, if compiled with default settings, makes sharing impossible between 32bit and 64bit systems as well.
The only compatibility option offered is forcing 32bit hashes for all systems, which makes 64bit systems incapable of reading 64bit dictionaries. Since most systems nowadays (especially ones where aspell would be used) are 64bit, it feels kind of backwards to force 32bit dicts. Would it be possible, then, to force 64bit dicts on 32bit systems? Would a contribution that adds this possibility be accepted? [1] http://aspell.net/man-html/Using-32_002dBit-Dictionaries-on-a-64_002dBit-System.html Thanks, Érico
