Re: [meshdb-devel] is it just my computer is the mailing list archive broke?

[Ian L. <il...@us...>]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, David Leonard wrote:
>I think the only thing needed was to network-endianize the index structure...
>is that right?

Yep, and make the fields fixed size (which I think you've done on your
personal dev branch).

I think this is accurate, except perhaps not the parenthesised section:

>See the structs in src/mailt/index.h (and probably others). They are
>mmap()'d in from the index file and accessed directly. Thus their contents
>are always in machine endianness. They would need to be converted on read
>and write e.g. with ntohl() and friends, which also requires making them
>sized types. The current (lack of) type sizing is also a portability
>issue, although less difficult to deal with than the endianness. David has
>done part of the work on his leonard-dev branch, but I don't know how far
>he's got.

Ian