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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]