Mark Dilger <mark.dilger@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Ahh, crud. It's because
> syswrite($fh, '\x77\x77\x77\x77', 500)
> is wrong twice. The 500 was wrong, but the string there isn't the bit pattern we want -- it's just a string literal
withbackslashes and such. It should have been double-quoted.
Argh. So we really have, using same test except
memcpy(&lp, "\\x77", sizeof(lp));
little endian: off = 785c, flags = 2, len = 1b9b
big endian: off = 2e3c, flags = 0, len = 3737
which explains the apparent LP_DEAD result.
I'm not particularly on board with your suggestion of "well, if it works
sometimes then it's okay". Then we have no idea of what we really tested.
regards, tom lane