On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 05:18:27PM +0200, René Scharfe wrote: > > it looks like assumptions about struct layout are pervasive and part of > > the on-disk format. Yuck. :( > > Assuming that there is no padding probably even works for the platforms > the code currently supports (basically x86), but I don't know about > others. We'd need to change the writing side as well to match, though. > Which is probably a good idea, but I tried to keep the patch small and > its impact low. Cross-machine usability is currently explicitly not > supported -- not sure why, though. Yeah, I think your patch is a good first step, and we don't have to go further for now. -Peff
