[M3devel] <*LAZYALIGN*>

[Rodney M. Bates]

I believe from reading code, that PM3 and CM3 pickle files are non-interchangeable
for another, more serious reason, namely, that the byte ordering of type
signatures in the files is different.

I think this can be fixed by making pickle code try either byte ordering, without
invalidating any existing pickle files.  There would be a very remote chance of
a misrecognized type, but then this is already possible due to the hash-code nature
of signatures anyway.  This is on my to-do list for work on pickles.

Mika Nystrom wrote:
> Ugh!!!  I am still using compilers that are almost ten years old
> on ALL my systems just because I need to share pickles between them
> and CM3 has a different TEXT format from my ancient PM3.  Tony
> thinks there's a workaround with specials but I haven't had a chance
> to get to it yet...
> 
>     
>
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Rodney M. Bates, retired assistant professor
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