Big Endian archtectures

[Jim McDonough/Boulder/IBM]

Whoops, I should have copied the list....I'll try to remember what I said.

I'm running on AIX and PPCLinux, and I can confirm your fears.  I'd offer
you access to my machines, but they're inside a firewall.

One specific bug I've run into (so has Greg Dickie on IRIX) is that in the
Printers admin share, the Unicode strings get byte-swapped, and the result
is that all the printer names, descriptions, etc. appear as a string of
blocks.  This patch works around it, but I'm not comfortable with it...
(See attached file: bigendian.Printersshare.patch)

I'm trying to get more familiar with the code so I can make a real fix to
it....

Jim

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Jim McDonough
Infoprint Manager Development
Linux Technology Center
IBM Boulder

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Gerald Carter <gcarter at valinux.com>@us5.samba.org on 10/30/2000 11:04:11 AM

Sent by:  samba-technical-admin at us5.samba.org


To:   samba-technical at samba.org
cc:
Subject:  Big Endian archtectures



Folks,

How many people are testing the Samba 2.2 branch on bid endian
platforms?  I've got a bad feeling that there are a lot
of big endian related rpc struct parsing errors.  Can anyone
confirm or dispell my fears?





Cheers, jerry
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