[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Need some inputs on porting.

[Chris Cox]

Vaidya, Harshal (Cognizant) wrote:
> Oh God!! This reminds me of another problem which we may face if we are
> to port the code. If Rougewave is doing a lot of serialization in its
> internal code, it could cause havocs while porting the code from 32 to
> 64 bit compatibility. If the serialization is on the wire types, I think
> it shouldn't be a problem if they are doing it on a persistent store
> like a file then we might get into depp shit!!
> 
> What do you think? 

Object serialization should not be a problem.  We used a mixture of
Sun Solaris (at the time, 32-bit), IBM AIX (at the time, 32-bit) and
DEC Alpha OSF1 (64bit).