Re: [Chicken-users] s11n + rpc

[Thomas Chust]

Am 11.11.2005, 22:30 Uhr, schrieb Zbigniew <address@hidden>:

> I was testing out the RPC egg and noticed it didn't work between a Mac
> and a PC.  This stems from endian issues in the s11n egg.  Now, I
> don't know if serialization was ever intended to work across
> architectures, but I went ahead and made a simple patch [attached] to
> the s11n egg.  With this, the RPC egg works fine between OS X on PPC
> and Linux on Intel.
> [...]

Hello,

I think, this is a fine idea! Serialization is definitely more useful if
it works across architecture boundaries.

> But 32<->64 communication is
> problematic because you can't tell the word length of serialized data,
> and anyway I suspect converting a 64-bit C_word to a 32-bit C_word
> might sometimes be lossy.
> [...]

Perhaps it would be most portable to serialize everything using 32 bit
words and to convert long fixnums exceeding the 32 bit range into
flonums.

cu,
Thomas