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Re: Fwd: getenv() in glibc
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
- Subject: Re: Fwd: getenv() in glibc
- From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 19:56:42 +0200
- Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.cygnus.com,Frank Jas <frank@jrware.com>
- References: <Franz Sirl's message of "Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:12:08 +0200"><4.2.0.58.19990910120444.00949180@mail.lauterbach.com>
At 14:21 10.09.99 , Andreas Schwab wrote:
>Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com> writes:
>
>|> Hi,
>|>
>|> I just verified Frank's report on Linux/PPC, does this happen on other
>|> platforms too?
>
>I don't know which platforms that are, but it happens on all bigendian
>platforms that don't allow unaligned memory accesses (sparc?).
>
>
>1999-09-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
>
> * sysdeps/generic/getenv.c (getenv): Fix lookup for single
> character variable on bigendian platforms without unaligned memory
> access.
Thanks, this fixed the problem on Linux/PPC, make check passed.
Frank, you can download fixed 2.1.2 RPM's (Rev. 7b) at
<ftp://devel.linuxppc.org/users/fsirl/R5/>.
Franz.