On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:16:22PM +1100, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote: > 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.
Did you consider using an encoding which uses variable number of bytes? If yes, I would be interested to know your reason for not choosing such an encoding. Efficiency? Best regards Tomasz _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
