On 2015-01-20 15:08:52 -0600, David Champion wrote: > BE and LE may pack structs differently, but I believe members of a > union should have the same alignment even if of differing size. This > should be safe for byte transposition between a char[] and an int. (You > can't port the cache file across endianness, but that's true for other > reasons.)
Couldn't the cache file be made architecture-independent? This could be useful for users working with a shared file system (such as NFS) on an heterogeneous network. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
