This still doesn't answer my question: being UB (ie containing binary executables that run natively on PPC and Intel) is one thing, handling endianness across the 2 CPUs quite another.
Does anyone know if you store a bunch of shorts, longs or int64's using a RealSQLDatabase on PPC will work transparently when the same records are read back on an Intel Mac? P. On 4/18/07, Mathieu Langlois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The new "RealDatabase" is called RealSQLDatabase, and it's UB. There > could be several reasons why they didn't bother to port the old format > to Intel, the most obvious one being that it's obsolete. Also perhaps > they didn't have access to the UB libraries of the underlying engine. > > Math > > On 4/18/07, Peter K. Stys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a similar question, and Mathieu's Intel comment is interesting: > > is the new RealDatabase "cross-CPU" ie Mac OS X on PPC and Intel? > > With one of my own apps (that stores images in a binary file) I've had > > not-so-subtle issues when writing an image file from a PPC Mac then > > reading the image file on an Intel Mac: byte-swapping is needed. > _______________________________________________ > Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: > <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> > > Search the archives: > <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html> > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter K. Stys, MD Professor of Medicine(Neurology), Senior Scientist Ottawa Health Research Institute, Div. of Neuroscience Ottawa Hospital / University of Ottawa Ontario, CANADA tel: (613)761-5444 fax: (613)761-5330 http://www.ohri.ca/profiles/stys.asp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
