Re: Bug#479152: ITP: core -- Jane Street Capital's alternative standard library for OCaml
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 11:07:42AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:10:16AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > BTW, i followed this only by far, but have you communicated with
> > upstream about this situation, and what is their opinion on this ?
>
> The best path ATM seems what has been outlined by Markus Mottl on the
> caml list: encoding the fact that the stuff is little endian and to the
> conversion back and forth on big endian machine at serialization and
> deserialization time. I've asked Markus (still on the mailing list, see
> the "core has landed" thread) if they plan to release this in the next
> release; I'm waiting for an answer.
>
> > If there is a need to patch cor/bin-proto, maybe the best way is to
> > provide the patch upstream and discuss it with them in order to not need
> > a patch in the future ?
>
> Sure it is, but it need someone who does the patch. I've worked enough
> on the whole stuff, and I'm fine for a while :) Maybe you are interested
> in drafting a patch for bin-prot? IIRC you have experience with big
> endian architectures ... Let us know if you are interested. I'm sure
> upstream will welcome patches in the direction of big endian support.
Interest, yes, but sadly not enough time right now. I don't even know
what this is really all about, but yes, i have experience in big endian
architectures, which is why this thread catched my attention.
I don't even know what this bin-prot thingy does, do you have a link or
something to an explanation ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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