[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13474) a city_production struct

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13474 >

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Jason Short wrote:

> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13474 >
>
> Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
> >>Why does a unique identifier need to be an integer rather than a pointer
> >>or a struct?
> >
> > Serialization. An integer is serializable and a pointer is not. This is
> > important for network transmission of data and savedgames.
>
> Of course you can serialize a struct.  We do exactly that with
> req_sources.  It doesn't even take any extra code (the analogue of
> req_get_values would be needed inside cid_create anyway).

Right. But weren't you turning it into pointers?

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa