On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 05:52 PM, Robert Ramey wrote:
I would like to make a comment here: our aim was just to achieve portability between all different UNIX variants. We have about ten different UNIX architectures around, but actually no Windows machines. Thus, for our purposes XDR provides a perfect and portable binary format which we have ben using without problems for more than eight years.Second, in terms of Serialization, I'm willing to create a portable,There was much interest in implementing XDR. I believe that initially
efficient binary archiver based on CDR (the format used by CORBA). Since
I'm lazy, I will probably steal most of the code from ACE/TAO
(http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html). Note that CDR has minimal
overhead (eg: it has variable byte-ordering, so byte swapping may not be
necessary). If there's interest, let me know.
it proceeded rapidly but bogged down because it depended on the
existence of some code shipped only with unix. Ultimately, implemenation
of a portable binary stream, requires specific coding for each machine
architecture. This makes the task larger than it first appears.
Matthias
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