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Jan Harkes <jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu> writes: > It looks to me like the dump pretty much assumes 32-bits and stores > everything in big-endian order. I looked at both dumpstuff and readstuff > and didn't see any obvious endian or 64-bit issues. Well everything uses > unsigned int instead of uint32_t, but I'm pretty sure that really > shouldn't make a difference on x86_84 or amd64 machines, I think > something like that may have only mattered on alpha. It would be good to convert to uint32_t and verify no regressions on i386, just for cleanliness. The PDP-11 coda port is going to run into trouble on this point, since after all int is 16 bits there. Of course they have a long way to do before the backup format is the biggest problem. My NetBSD/alpha machine is powered off, but I dimly remember int being 64 bits there.Received on 2009-02-06 08:47:48