On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 09:19 +0000, Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
> Lars Luthman wrote:
>
> > _Any_ structure that isn't just a dumb array of bytes will be unsafe to
> > move between machines because of endianness.
>
> A bridge can compare the architectures of the bridged machines, and
> refuse to continue if they're different.
>
> That kind of bridge could be written by a well trained chimpanzee and
> work for (perhaps) majority of cases. Of course, to work for *all*
> cases, the serialization would be needed.
>
> Also, if the buffer is "simple" (as in: no pointers or handles
> whatsoever), the serialization doesn't need to be implemented or invoked! :)
Serialisation (be it for a network or to a file or whatever) is an event
type specific thing; orthogonal problem. OSC, for example, precisely
defines the binary format of a message for network transmission.
New event type extensions can define such things on their own as well.
-DR-
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