Big Endian archtectures

[Jim McDonough/Boulder/IBM]

Sorry, but there's just no way I can get you into my machines.  I'd be glad
to help out, if there are other areas you know need to be fixed, since I
have a couple big-endian machines...and hopefully an S/390 soon, too.

JIm

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Jim McDonough
Infoprint Manager Development
Linux Technology Center
IBM Boulder

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Jean Francois Micouleau <Jean-Francois.Micouleau at dalalu.fr> on 10/30/2000
12:10:01 PM

To:   Jim McDonough/Boulder/IBM at IBMUS
cc:   Gerald Carter <gcarter at valinux.com>, samba-technical at samba.org
Subject:  Re: Big Endian archtectures




On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Jim McDonough/Boulder/IBM wrote:

> 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)

Jim, that's not the only endianess bug in the spoolss code. Greg sent me a
trace showing other stuff.

Unless someone give me a root account on a bigendian box, I can't fix all
of them.

     J.F.