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Re: [PATCH] Fix xdr_long and xdr_u_long

To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix xdr_long and xdr_u_long
From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:11:38 +0100
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>,Glibc hackers <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Organization: SuSE GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
References: <20010103124710.G526@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>

HJ\i,

On Wed, Jan 03, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> xdr_long and xdr_u_long silently discard upper bits on 64bit arches, they
> should fail instead.

No, it is correct that this functions silently discard upper bits on
64bit arches. Sun defines this functions for 32bit values only (is from
the old SunOS days). For 64bit you have to use the newer xdr_int64_t 
and xdr_uint64_t functions.

  Thorsten

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