[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Linux saved game crashes client on Solaris (PR#1522)

[Raimar Falke <rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 03:42:50AM -0700, Per I Mathisen wrote:
> On Fri, 31 May 2002, Raimar Falke wrote:
> > > > Attributes aren't endian safe. CMA uses attributes.
> > >
> > > Shouldn't they be?  savegames are supposed to be portable?
> 
> > There is no easy way to make this automatic. It would only affect
> > clients which switch during a game the architecture. IMHO the
> > cost-benefit ratio isn't nice. I would vote to list it as a limitation.
> 
> If we cannot fix endianness of attributes, then we have to detect wrong
> endianness, stop freeciv from loading the data, and regenerate it somehow.

It looks wrong to change the protocol now to save the endianess and
later change it again for the real fix. I would like to make the real
fix now but it will probably too large.

> I don't have problem with dropping worklists and recalculating CMA data,
> but savegames _must_ be portable, otherwise we cannot have scenarios and
> bug reports become more difficult.
> 
> This issue will make attributes less useful if left unsolved, as we always
> have to have a backup solution and we cannot save critical data in it.

        Raimar

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