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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.
 
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