multi-platform dump and restore?

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Wed Jul 2 18:07:33 UTC 2008


>    dump core? [yn] n
>    # uname -a
>    OpenBSD dev.example.com 4.2 GENERIC#375 i386
>
> How did you guess?
>
actually second was a guess. first was natural, as amd64 and i386 are both 
little endian, int&long are same sized under gcc, and memory pointers are 
not stored in dump files.

second - because dump was never intended to be portable, nobody cares 
about it.


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