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Re: [GDBM] On x86 fails to read db created on armel and vice versa
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: [GDBM] On x86 fails to read db created on armel and vice versa |
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Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:50:56 +0100 |
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address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:
> But both armel and x86 are little endian and both are 32-bit as I
> recall and so I am a little bit surprised to see a problem show up
> between those two. I would have expected that it *might* work if the
> sizes and endianness were the same.
The sizes are not necessarily the same due to different alignment.
Andreas.
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