Bug #24987 for Storable: Perl thaw/freeze cross-arch issue

Hello, I am running a 64-bit machine and ran into an issue with some code that uses thaw and freeze. I used two machines (32 bit and 64 bit) so here is the info for those: 32 bit: perl version v5.8.7 built for i686-linux OS stuff: uname -a Linux noddy.ee.washington.edu 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL #1 Mon Sep 25 17:14:19 EDT 2006 i6 86 i686 i386 GNU/Linux 64 bit: perl version v5.8.7 built for x86_64-linux OS stuff: uname -a Linux lark.ee.washington.edu 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Sep 25 17:24:31 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I wrote two scripts, one called mrfreeze and one called mrthaw. I did the following tests: freeze thaw result 32-bit 32-bit good 64-bit 64-bit good 32-bit 64-bit Byte order error 64-bit 32-bit Byte order error The full text of the byte order error is: Byte order is not compatible at blib/lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into blib/lib/auto/Storable/thaw.al) line 366, at ./mrthaw line 23 Here is the contents of my scripts: ##### mrfreeze ####### #!/usr/nikola/bin/perl use strict; use Carp; use Storable qw(freeze thaw); #use Compress::Zlib; #local $Storable::interwork_56_64bit = 1; my $sadstring = "hello"; my($fNm,$x)=('coldString', \$sadstring); # output file name, ref to dat to be compressed my $sad2 = freeze $x; open(FILE,">$fNm") || confess "\nWrite open failed for '$fNm': $!\n\n"; print(FILE $sad2) || confess "write fail on '$fNm: $!\n\n"; close(FILE) || confess "\nWrite close failed for '$fNm': $!\n\n"; print "String $sadstring just frozen. \n"; ######### mrthaw ############## #!/usr/nikola/bin/perl use strict; use Carp; use Storable qw(freeze thaw); #use Compress::Zlib; #local $Storable::interwork_56_64bit = 1; my($fNm)="coldString"; # name of file to read open(FILE,$fNm) || confess "\nRead open failed for '$fNm': $!\n\n"; my $sad2; while (<FILE>) { $sad2 .= $_; # reader stops on 'newlines' seen in binary file } close(FILE) || confess "\nRead close failed for'$fNm': $!\n\n"; my $sadstring = thaw $sad2; ############# end of scripts ############ thanks very much for your help! Please let me know if you have any questions about this. I only just started using perl recently so I am very sorry if I left anything out or if there was something that wasn't clear. Thanks! Amy