sunrpc vs 64 bit

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Wed Aug 28 02:19:00 GMT 2002


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Roland McGrath wrote:
> Does sunrpc work on 64-bit platforms right now?  PR libc/2226 cites a
> problem with the use of u_long all over the sunrpc code where it ought
> to be uint32_t.  It looks to me like this is probably in fact a problem,
> but I don't have a 64-bit machine to test it out on at the moment.

I think this would break the ABI.  In which case it's a no-go.

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