Re: Need help with afio on powerpc
Dirk Eddelbuettel (edd@debian.org) wrote:
> A while back, Dieter Schuster reported (and then kindly fixed with a patch)
> an issue with afio files on 32-bit powerpc systems [ cf #144986 ]. Today I
> received a new bug report, and patch, by Stephen van Egmond for 64-bit
> powerpc systems [ cf #153948 ].
>
> I would greatly appreciate help from powerpc-savvy users who could reconcile
> both patches. Any takers?
Actually it's not a fix to ppc64. The earlier patch -broke- ppc32. On
my iBook (assuredly 32 bit), backups just completely didn't work. Much
like the subject to bugs.debian.org/144986 .
The problem was that 64-bit filesystem was turned on. This makes off_t
64 bits. This means that sscanf() must be changed to say %L instead of
%l when scanning into an off_t, or else big-endian architectures will
break, whether 32 or 64 bit.
I hope this clarifies.
Steve
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