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From: klaiber@cs.washington.edu (Alexander Klaiber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Problems with STORABLE and C-packages
Summary: portability questionable
Keywords: storable, packages, bug, portability
Message-ID: <9186@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 15 Sep 89 06:12:05 GMT
Reply-To: klaiber@cs.washington.edu (Alexander Klaiber)
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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Aaarghhhh...

I have been playing around with the C_PACKAGE recently in order to port one
application I wrote from the Sun (which is running Eiffel) to a VAX (which
is not running Eiffel, hence the C_PACKAGE fuss).
I am using the STORABLE class to generate a complicated data structure that
gets read by another module later on. Now things are just fine on our Sun;
however, when I try to run the ported code on the VAX, I get either a crash
or nothing at all during the 'retrieve' operation.

Has anyone had this kind of a portability problem before? And if so, have
you found a solution?
Oh yes, I am still using 2.1.

Frustrated,

	Alexander Klaiber

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	Alexander Klaiber
	klaiber@cs.washington.edu