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[perl #117887] generic byteorder code in my_htonl and my_ntohl is incorrect

From:
Nicholas Clark via RT
Date:
June 17, 2013 13:21
Subject:
[perl #117887] generic byteorder code in my_htonl and my_ntohl is incorrect
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-2552-1371475249-1284.117887-15-0@perl.org
On Mon May 06 04:32:09 2013, nicholas wrote:

> I think that the best fix, however, is
> 
> a) to explicitly drop all remaining code that supports mixed-endian
> platforms
>    (and remove it)**
> b) then post v5.18.0 merge in the fixes in smoke-
> me/nicholas/genpacksizetables
>    which eliminate the need for the support functions completely.

I applied the patch as commit 66bb80e432461784
Marking as resolved.

Nicholas Clark


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