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

[Dan H. <da...@da...>]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 15:51:29 -0800
"D. V. Wiebe" <ge...@ke...> wrote:

> 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

ok, just saw some "bit" handling in the failing test case :-)

> 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.

thanks


		Dan