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- From: fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- Newsgroups: comp.compression
- Subject: Re: Portability issues for archiver authors
- Message-ID: <b8hu03V.c6s700@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 23:32:51 GMT
- References: <92tI03Lyc5EL00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1992Dec25.122946.6735@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <1992Dec25.122946.6735@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann) writes:
- >>[ problems with compiling HPACK on Amdahl big iron ]
- >
- >Ah, a 64-bit system.
-
- Nope. It's got 32-bit ints; only a few things have changed. It's called
- "Expanded Fundamental Types" (EFT) - stuff like 32-bit pid_t, mode_t, dev_t
- (yes, we do need minor numbers > 1024) and so on don't create real problems.
- The Big Unpleasant Change was switching from 32-bit off_ts to 64-bit off_ts,
- which are used in lseek(), fseek(), and stat()->st_size. [actually, in strict
- ANSI mode we revert to 32-bit arguments for fseek() because ANSI says we have
- to... but if you're in strict compliance mode, then you've got the prototypes
- so it's not a problem.]
-
- >If you send me diffs I'll fix everything up so it'll work next time...
-
- I'm still working on it. The basic stuff seems to work, but the encryption
- has problems. I'm (theoretically) off until '93, so it'll be another week or
- so.
-
- > pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||p_gutmann@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||gutmann_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- >peterg@kcbbs.gen.nz||peter@nacjack.gen.nz||peter@phlarnschlorpht.nacjack.gen.nz
-
- --
- fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
- [ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]
-