25 Jan
2007
25 Jan
'07
10:16 p.m.
john:
Yay! I knew if I waited long enough someone would write this.
Is the binary format portable? I need the produced files to work on both 32 and 64 bit architectures and with big and little endian machines. And of course, between different versions of a compiler or different compilers.
We believe so, and its a bug if this is not the case. The src documents the encoding format used for each type (we were unable to attach haddocks to instances.. grr.) All data is encoded in Network order, and extended to 64 bits for word sized values (like Int). It should be possible to encode a structure with ghc on x86, and decode it on a sparc64 running hugs. -- Don