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Subject: Re: Opening Book

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 10:54:23 03/19/01

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On March 19, 2001 at 12:28:14, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>On March 19, 2001 at 04:48:54, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>Hello there.
>>
>>I'm adding opening book support to my engine, but I've got a problem with
>>figuring out a good portable book format. I have to be able to store binary
>>data, such as a 64-bit hashkey, and I can't see any other way to do this in a
>>portable way, than storing one byte at a time in the file, since I don't know
>>how ints and other types are represented on various platforms.
>
>Excellent point. Not only endianess would be a problem, but also
>size of int, etc. I haven't implemented a book yet and there is still areas

An int is assured to be at least 32 bits by the ANSI standard.



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