Re: [getdata-devel] alter_entry_scalar3c test fails on big endian platforms

[D. V. W. <ge...@ke...>]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 11:29:06PM +0100, Dan Horák wrote:
> this is captured build log including "make check" output -
> http://fedora.danny.cz/tmp/.build-0.9.1-1.fc25.log.gz
> 
> If the code plays with bit-fields in C, then the bits are used
> differently between little and big endian arches. You can find the
> details in eg. PPC ELF ABI document [1].
> 
> 	With regards,
> 
> 		Dan

Thanks Dan,

that was helpful.  I think I've found the problem.  I wish it were
something as interesting as bit twiddling, but it's just trying to put a
64-bit integer into an int.  The bug seems to have been introduced in
0.6.0 in 2009; I'm surprised it wasn't found earlier.

Regardless, I've been working towards a 0.9.2 release.  I'll fix this,
and there will likely be a release next week.

Cheers,
-don
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