Re: Possible byte-order problems in TeX format files with -rc1

On 02 Feb 2003, Olaf Weber uttered the following:
> nix  writes:
> 
>> I'm sharing format, pool and base files between a sparc64 (32-bit
>> userspace) box and an i386 box --- or I was; but between 20021225 and
>> -rc1, the byte-order independence of these files has broken, even
>> without NO_DUMP_SHARE; all .base, .fmt. .efmt and .mem files differ
>> between those platforms now.
> 
> The date and time is stored in the format, resolution is a minute.
> When comparing the formats with 'cmp' verify how many bytes differ.
> If it is one or two bytes at offsets 97568 or 97567 you should be ok.
> If you generate the files on different dates, there will be more
> differences.

Comparing tex.fmt shows 21009 differences, the first at byte 97675, so I
fear that that's not the problem :(

(But it's not every byte in the file, or even most of them... so the
problem's not *that* obvious. Alas.)

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