From: Philippe E. <ph...@wa...> - 2002-10-12 19:20:12
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John Levon wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 08:24:05PM +0000, Philippe Elie wrote: [snip] > I've been thinking too. What I think would be best is to have an > op_export that can export a platform-specific sample file into something > that can be debugged on another system. Basically we build an op_export > on the source machine, therefore it "instinctively" understands the > binary format. And it can then export to a platform-agnostic format > (which could have the ABI header stuff, or hdf5, or whatever) > > Pros > ---- > > No complication on the 99% path of using the same machine > No performance concerns > Flexibility of changes in platform-specific and op_export code > > Cons > ---- > > Possibility of op_export bugs interfering with the debug effort > > Graydon, what do you think ? Sorry I didn't object too much earlier, but > I really think this would be the preferable approach. I though to that too but how can we test pp tools on this exported format ? regards, Phil |