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

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13474 >
> 
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Jason Short wrote:
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> 
>><URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13474 >
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>>Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa wrote:
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>>>>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?

Pointer-to-struct, of course ;-).

-jason