[Openais] [PATCH] Endian fixes

Patrick Caulfield pcaulfie at redhat.com
Sat Apr 29 02:15:58 PDT 2006


Steven Dake wrote:
> Patrick,
> 
> I'd rather wait to apply any patches relating to totemsrp until after
> the redundant ring work is completed.
> 
> The change for clm are not 32/64 bit safe on big and litlte endian
> machines because a short is used in SaNameT in front of a 256 char
> array.  Evil sa forum.

blech !

> How I'd like to fix this is to create structures that are 64 bit safe
> that we use in and around files in the exec directory.  They may in fact
> duplicate the structure of the data structs in sa forum's apis, but be
> safe to pass over the network, etc.
> 

No problem. I did it for largely selfish reasons anyway :)

Patrick



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