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Date:      Mon, 29 May 2000 11:00:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/18874: 32bit NFS servers export wrong negative values to 64bit clients
Message-ID:  <200005291800.LAA61128@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/18874; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
To: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/18874: 32bit NFS servers export wrong negative values to 64bit clients
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 19:57:59 +0200

 Thus spake Anatoly Vorobey (mellon@pobox.com):
 
 > Bummer, scenario C shouldn't work at all -- can you check? But this
 > isn't your case, your case is scenario B IIRC -- and the conversion
 > should work fine, my patch corrects the problem which might happen
 > because the value gets divided before the third stage, when the compiler
 > still thinks it's unsigned 64bit.
 
 I'll test soon. At the moment I'm building world. I'll also try the
 quad_t cast instead of the long cast.
 
 Thanks anyways.
 
 Alex
 
 -- 
 I need a new ~/.sig.
 


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