On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, David Friend wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Tymm Twillman wrote:
>
> > of these, but here's a diff for working (broken) hton_s, hton_l, etc. for
> > big endian machines...
>
> This had been a problem on the SPARC/Linux platform but I believe it was
> fixed and applied to the source around May 25th. At any rate, 970531
> works on my system without patching.
>
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>
Admittedly, the current code works... but the macros don't *do* anything,
except eat u_shorts that are passed to hton_s, and give nasty numbers for
u_shorts passed to ntoh_l. With psql on one system and the database on
another, with different byte ordering, it should break.
- -Tymm
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