Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:40:05 -0800 (PST) From: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/17681: XDR does not handle 64bit data types correctly Message-ID: <200003311640.IAA48671@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/17681; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, crossd@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Re: bin/17681: XDR does not handle 64bit data types correctly Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:33:02 -0500 > > It does now. *sigh* > > By the way... You said that your fix is derived from NetBSD. Given > their wild fanaticism for portable code, I'm surprised that your patch > is so much more complicated than theirs. > > What gives? Hmm? It shouldn't be. The aforementioned patch should make our xdr*() routines look identical to NetBSDs. A patch that I posted earlier to the mailing list was more complicated, and less portable, that is why I switched to the NetBSD version. -- David Cross | email: crossd@cs.rpi.edu Acting Lab Director | NYSLP: FREEBSD Systems Administrator/Research Programmer | Web: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, | Ph: 518.276.2860 Department of Computer Science | Fax: 518.276.4033 I speak only for myself. | WinNT:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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