On Friday 05 October 2001 12:02 pm, Gibbs Tanton - tgibbs wrote: > Bryan wrote -- > > >The header portion may need some work.... > > I'm a little confused by what this means...is this something the patch can > address?
Oh, sorry, no. Just thinking aloud about how the header information - from the magic word through metadata and the constant table - would need to be handled across platforms of different sizes. Constant table lookups, for example, would have to adjusted by the size differences. There may be alignment issues as well. (Reading 12 byte FLOATVALs on a 16 byte FLOATVALs machine whose alignment is 8, for instance. [1]) [1] Except floats are horrendously non-portable anyway, so that's probably a very bad example. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
