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Re: Is SearchKit's binary index Universal?
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Re: Is SearchKit's binary index Universal?


  • Subject: Re: Is SearchKit's binary index Universal?
  • From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:11:20 -0600


On Aug 6, 2007, at 7:42 AM, Christian Moen wrote:

My application is using SearchKit to build an index. Is this index a
Universal Binary in the sense that it can be read as is on a different Mac
architecture? For example, if I generate the index on a G4 system
(32-bits), will it be readable on the Intel Macs (both 32-and 64- bit) as it?

I wouldn't count on it.

Does this hold true for all files written by Carbon and Cocoa APIs?

It depends. Unicode text, RTF data, TIFF data, NSCoder data, SQLite databases, and Web archives are cross-architecture since they either use one-byte primitives or have the appropriate byte ordering mark in them identifying them as big-endian or little-endian. If it's a proprietary file format, then anything goes.


Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>




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