[Freeciv-Dev] Re: attrhash

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:44:26PM +0100, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just thought about the problem of endianess when transfering
> attribute data to the server. It needs to be properly swapped on
> sending and retrieveing. Perhaps one could have an array of swapper
> functions with one entry per category, which would get called from
> set_attribute. Does anybody have a good idea?

[ The common client code can't handle it since it only sees a
  bytestream. So the actual user of the bytestream has to do it. ]

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.

        Raimar

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