[PVFS2-developers] return of 64 bit and request encode/decode

[Robert Latham]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:11:05PM -0400, Pete Wyckoff wrote:
>     Might PPC be a big-endian machine?  x86* are little-endian.

yes, ppc is big endian.  We're ok on ppc32.  

> Can you try something like this in src/io/description/pint-request.h:

not bad. you got the syntax right on the first shot :>

> I'm guessing the cast to u_int32_t* is picking up the wrong half
> of the dword on big-endian machines.  Another proof that god intended
> the world to be little-endian if so.  :)

I don't know if a BE/LE flame fest is better or worse than an emacs/vi
equivalent...  in any case, I made the changes you suggested and now
we don't segfault. 

==rob

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