Re: solved: byte order issues (was Re: [Integrit-users] problems using integrit)

[Franky V. L. <fra...@pa...>]

great, so I now have to wait for the next version :) Any idea when this
will come out?

Franky

Ed L Cashin wrote:

> Good news: the problem has been fixed.  It was a byte order issue.
> The cdb is stored in a cross-platform format.  The numbers in the cdb
> file are in little-endian byte order, so no problems showed up on
> PC's.
>
> Now cdb's own number packing and unpacking routines are used to ensure
> that the numbers from the database are translated correctly into the
> host's native integer format.
>
> Thanks much to Van Liedekerke Franky for reporting the problem.  This
> fix is a big deal, since it applies to all big-endian architectures
> (and therefore lets me use integrit on more machines at work :).
>
> Soon I'll announce a version 1.06 release.  It will be a beta, since
> the current integrit has some enhancements and more error checking.
>
> --
> --Ed Cashin                    integrit file verification system
>   ec...@co...          http://integrit.sourceforge.net/