Hi all,
The inet regression test has been failed on my LinuxPPC. While
investigating the reason, I found a code that doesn't work on
LinuxPPC. From network_broadcast() in utils/adt/network.c:
int addr = htonl(ntohl(ip_v4addr(ip)) | (0xffffffff >> ip_bits(ip)));
Here ip_bits() returns from (unsigned char)0 to 32. My question is:
what is the correct result of (0xffffffff >> ip_bits())?
1. 0x0
2. 0xffffffff (actually does nothing)
LinuxPPC is 1. FreeBSD and Solaris are 2. network_broadcast() seems to
expect 2. My guess is shifting over 32bit against a 32bit integer is
not permitted and the result is platform depedent. If this would true,
it could be said that network_broadcast() has a portabilty
problem. Comments?
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Tatsuo Ishii
