[MATRIX-SIG] Possible bug in Numeric LoadArray function

[Konrad Hinsen]

> A pickled file for an integer array was created on an SGI Onyx.
> This machine has 4 byte ints and 4 byte longs.
> 
> The picked file would not read on a DEC alpha (64 bit longs).
> The reshape function in LoadArray failed because the
> byte counts didn't match.

I am not surprised - the pickling approach used in NumPy is not really
portable. Anyway, it will have to be rewritten to profit from cPickle
under Python 1.5. Unfortunately, there is no perfect solution; either
pickling must make assumptions about the binary format of its data
types (as it does now), or it must apply a conversion, which can
become very time consuming for large arrays.
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