Re: the staying power of heaps

John Reppy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.sml.smlnj
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The runtime system has a magic number that gets embedded in the heap  
image.
Whenever the image changes in a incompatible way (i.e., because of a  
change
in the runtime), the number is changed.  It should refuse to load  
heaps that
have the wrong magic number.

	- John

On Nov 1, 2006, at 11:37 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

>
> This sounds a lot like a FAQ to me, but it is not in the Web FAQ list
> (such as it is).  So here goes:
>
> How portable are exported heaps with respect to successive releases?
> Will a heap exported under 110.42 still work under 110.59?  What about
> heaps from 93.x?  Is there a Big Fat Warning in the release README  
> when
> compatibility is broken?
>
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