Re: [Chicken-users] s11n among different chicken versions

[Daishi Kato]

Oops, sorry about that.
I'll check the past discussion.
Daishi

At Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:50:05 -0500,
Zbigniew wrote:
> 
> Daishi,
> 
> A while ago we had a discussion on how portable s11n is, and how
> portable it should strive to be.  Felix gave a technical explanation
> of the implementation here:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2005-11/msg00105.html.
>  The eggdoc also mentions that serialized data is endian- and
> word-size-dependent, and when procedures/continuations are serialized
> this dependency extends to identical binaries.  The egg is not
> intended to be terribly robust as S-exprs are (sometimes) a good
> alternative.
> 
> I believe if you do not serialize procedures or continuations, it
> should deserialize across Chicken versions, but I have not tried.
> 
> As an aside, I -think- endianness is not a factor any more, I had
> provided a simple patch which removed this limitation.  This was only
> to make testing easier for me on a heterogeneous network.  Further
> robustness was deemed outside the scope of the egg.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> On 7/20/06, Daishi Kato <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it well known that a serialization and a deserialization
> > are not compatible between different chicken versions?
> > Any way for convertion? any workaround?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Daishi
> >
> >
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