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Re: Need help with afio on powerpc




> On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 04:46, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > 
> > A little while back, I applied a patch to afio by our own Norbert Veber, and
> > blessed upstream, to enable afio to work on archives >2gb. This was #110853.
> > It added some sort of 64bit arithmetic flag
> > 
> > We now have #144986 -- it appears that powerpc is confused by this.  Could
> > some kind soul with powerpc knowledge shed some light on this. Does the 32/64
> > bit nature of powerpc play into this?
> 
> Let's start with the usual suspects, in particular endianness. Are all
> the types correct? If 64 bit variables are treated as 32 bit, that could
> work on little endian systems but not big endian...

Excellent point.  Any volunteers willing to do some tests or study afio's source?
Dieter: Do you want to try? I'm sure Michael would gladly assist with a few emails.

Dirk
(tied up this week)

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