Re: [fpc-pascal] Binary compatibility between Intel CPU and PowerPC CPU

2008-09-16 Thread Gustavo Enrique Jimenez
2008/9/16 Adriaan van Os <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Roland Turcan wrote: >> >> Hello FPC-Pascal users discussions! >> >> What is the best way to keep the binary compatibility among different >> CPU architectures. >> >> I need to make our own database engine compatible and other binary >> files, that us

Re: [fpc-pascal] Binary compatibility between Intel CPU and PowerPC CPU

2008-09-16 Thread Vincent Snijders
Roland Turcan schreef: Hello all, Thanks for all responses and I've got the answer I thought I get, but I don't like it. :-| Never mind. I cannot make any change on the data structure which is on the market about 10 years, but at least I have one advantage. The software was developed and is sti

Re[2]: [fpc-pascal] Binary compatibility between Intel CPU and PowerPC CPU

2008-09-16 Thread Roland Turcan
Hello all, Thanks for all responses and I've got the answer I thought I get, but I don't like it. :-| Never mind. I cannot make any change on the data structure which is on the market about 10 years, but at least I have one advantage. The software was developed and is still used on i386 platform

Re: [fpc-pascal] Binary compatibility between Intel CPU and PowerPC CPU

2008-09-16 Thread Jeff Wormsley
Well, the (inefficient / multiplatform - choose one) way is to not store data as binary, instead using something like XML. Probably not an option, but there will be a tradeoff and a penalty no matter what. One way would be store the data in the endianness of the consistently slower platform (

Re: [fpc-pascal] Binary compatibility between Intel CPU and PowerPC CPU

2008-09-16 Thread Adriaan van Os
Adriaan van Os wrote: Roland Turcan wrote: Hello FPC-Pascal users discussions! What is the best way to keep the binary compatibility among different CPU architectures. I need to make our own database engine compatible and other binary files, that user still can use our data from i386 or PowerP

Re: [fpc-pascal] Binary compatibility between Intel CPU and PowerPC CPU

2008-09-16 Thread Adriaan van Os
Roland Turcan wrote: Hello FPC-Pascal users discussions! What is the best way to keep the binary compatibility among different CPU architectures. I need to make our own database engine compatible and other binary files, that user still can use our data from i386 or PowerPC computer. I really d

Re: [fpc-pascal] Binary compatibility between Intel CPU and PowerPC CPU

2008-09-16 Thread Francisco Reyes
Roland Turcan writes: I need to make our own database engine compatible and other binary files, that user still can use our data from i386 or PowerPC computer. Do you mean you are trying to keep your binary data files compatible between these two architectures? I don't have an answer, but i

[fpc-pascal] Binary compatibility between Intel CPU and PowerPC CPU

2008-09-16 Thread Roland Turcan
Hello FPC-Pascal users discussions! What is the best way to keep the binary compatibility among different CPU architectures. I need to make our own database engine compatible and other binary files, that user still can use our data from i386 or PowerPC computer. I really don't like the idea to c