On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 10:57:54AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 04:28:50PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > > If you are talking about data files rather than program files, you have > > the extra option of changing the program to save the data in a way > > (such as HDF or ASCII) that is independent from the architecture. > Or defining the data format to be big endian or little endian, or > including in the file format an indication of which end is first. > Then do conditional byteswapping to read the data in the right order. In this case (AMD64/P4) the most important thing to check is the size of the data: integers, for example, could be 64 bits in the AMD64 and is 32 bits on the P4. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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