On 13/10/2010 15:54, Christian Lippka wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Am 13.10.2010 15:35, schrieb Michael Stahl:

[...]

>> does anybody know where (or if) this method is still called?
>> i was of course suspecting the dreaded binfilter to call it, but actually
>> binfilter seems to have its own svtools copy complete with item pools, so
>> that can't be it.
>>
>> OpenGrok finds 138 definitions of a "Store" method, and 479 callers.
>> now, if it were possible to parse C++, perhaps i would know which of these
>> call this particular Store...
>>
>> in case it is still called, what should be done to introduce a new
>> incompatible version here?
> 
> An incompatibility would only arise if we still exchange binary data
> between different versions. To my knowledge we do not do this anymore.
> We still have binary clipboard in some cases but clipboard never worked
> between different versions (f.e. no clipboard between a running OOo 2.0 
> and OOo 3.0).

ok.

> The only Problem could be if this implementation is also used by the 
> binfilter module, but I think binfilter cloned the sources regarding
> items. But you should double check that.

have already checked that (as mentioned above :)

> So if I'm not mistaken, you can change the binary stream operations
> as you like, as long as load and store is the same of course :-)

ok, this means we'd have to find the place where this thing is loaded
again and check that it's also changed to size_t...
of course size_t would be an inappropriate type for a file format anyway
as it has varying size;  perhaps a sal_uInt64 is in order...

> Regards,
> Christian

PS: your mail didn't make it to the list (or at least to the Gmane version
of it) - any idea why?

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 but nothing of interest is easy." -- Alan Perlis


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