Big Endian archtectures
Jim McDonough/Boulder/IBM
jmcd at us.ibm.com
Mon Oct 30 18:34:39 GMT 2000
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
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IBM Boulder
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Gerald Carter <gcarter at valinux.com>@us5.samba.org on 10/30/2000 11:04:11 AM
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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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