Coda File System

Re: large servers: please help

From: <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:12:16 -0500
> In other completely different news, I tried compiling coda on my Alpha and
> I got laughed at by my compiler...
> 
> The first minor choke was in lib-src/lwp.c at line 552:
> 
> 	if ((int) stackptr == -1)
> 
> stackptr is originally typed as (char *)...in Alpha-land, pointers are 8
> bytes and sizeof(void *) == sizeof(long), not sizeof(int)...
> 
> What kind of evil voodoo is this and what's the proper way to fix it?

In this case it should be,

	if (stackptr == MAP_FAILED)

One down, many more 64-bit issues to go.

Jan
Received on 1999-01-20 17:13:10