[rrd-developers] Platform-specific issues with old libraries (was: Preview for updated RRDTool PHP extension and userland wrapper)

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Benny,


> Not only size issues. PPC and x86 use different Endianisms and if I got
> the workings on the Portable RRD Fileformat page I linked above right,
> even some differences with NaNs. Also the size of int (favouritely used
> in those old RRD versions) is heavily dependent on the system you
> compiled for.

worst of all IMHO is the data packing within structs ... especially
windows seems to change this even depending on compiler options
causing people to run into problems with rrdtool data depening on
the compiler/options they use .... (aargh)


cheers
tobi

>
> Regards,
> BenBE.
>
>

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