[rrd-developers] implementing portable format

[Sebastian Harl]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:25:30PM +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> Today Bernhard Reutner-Fischer wrote:
> > This is really not concerned with the architecture in any way.
> >
> > You would just read any data back with the appropriate per data accessor
> > from libc. like e.g.:
[...]
> as I said, integers are no problem whatsoever, the differences lie
> in floatinpoint formats and data alignment.

Data alignment happens in (main) memory only, so this is not an issue
for on-disk formats. You might just not be able to simple copy a whole
struct to disk but need to write each field one by one.

Cheers,
Sebastian

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