[M3devel] <*LAZYALIGN*>

[Tony Hosking]

Yes, Blair MacIntyre is still at GaTech: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ 
~blair/home.html.

On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:16 PM, Randy Coleburn wrote:

> Mika:
>
> I believe the person you are referencing is Blair McIntyre.  Last  
> time I communicated with him he was a professor at Georgia Tech.
>
> Regards,
> Randy
>
> >>> Mika Nystrom <mika at async.caltech.edu> 2/22/2008 4:19 PM >>>
> Oh I should be clear on what I mean, exactly, when I say things  
> like that.
>
> Pickles "version 1", what was in SRC M3 and is in PM3, were never  
> from what
> I understand completely implemented?  For one thing, they didn't  
> support
> endian-switching.
>
> A gentleman with a Scottish name that eludes me at the moment came
> out with "Pickles version 2", which do the endianness-switching, among
> other things.
>
> My "PM3" includes a lot of things from newer M3s, such as this  
> Pickles version 2.
>
> I really am not enamored with my ancient PM3.  I just need something
> that works reliably on Cygwin *and* FreeBSD (which it does).  So  
> adding
> the odd CM3 library to it is no big deal.
>
> But the TEXT issue is so deeply embedded in the compiler and runtime
> that I haven't had the guts to try to retrofit CM3 TEXTs to PM3 or
> vice versa.
>
> I am almost certain I have tested interchanging pickles between my  
> PM3 code
> and some CM3 code and verified that it did work as long as there  
> were no
> TEXTs involved.  (It was a couple of years ago I did this; I think  
> I spammed
> m3devel about it then too.)
>
>      Mika
>
> "Rodney M. Bates" writes:
> >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...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >--
> >-------------------------------------------------------------
> >Rodney M. Bates, retired assistant professor
> >Dept. of Computer Science, Wichita State University
> >Wichita, KS 67260-0083
> >316-978-3922
> >rodney.bates at wichita.edu
>