Re: Lua 5.1-5.3 serialization library

[Richard Hundt <richardhundt@...>]

>
> After a lot of hassle I settled on Lua Marshal which might be a starting
> point.
>
> Plain C.
> MIT
> No table size limit unlike almost all Lua high level based.
> No funny code I've found: many of the mentioned solutions I found didn't
> actually work.
>
> 5.3? No idea.
> Portable? No, is marked as such, why is unclear. If this is binary endian
> you have the source, fix it. Lua version, not so simple.
>

To clarify the non-portability: you can't move between endianness
because the bytes of numbers and integers are written directly to the
buffer via a `memcpy` with no effort made to encode it portably.



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