Re: [HACKERS] Someone might already have done working versions

On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Tymm Twillman wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, David Friend wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Tymm Twillman wrote:
> >
> > > of these, but here's a diff for working (broken) hton_s, hton_l, etc. for
> > > big endian machines...
> >
> > This had been a problem on the SPARC/Linux platform but I believe it was
> > fixed and applied to the source around May 25th.  At any rate, 970531
> > works on my system without patching.
>
> Admittedly, the current code works... but the macros don't *do* anything,
> except eat u_shorts that are passed to hton_s, and give nasty numbers for
> u_shorts passed to ntoh_l.  With psql on one system and the database on
> another, with different byte ordering, it should break.

I'll take your word for it since I don't have a good understanding for
this piece of code.  Anything to help clean up the mess in this area is
appreciated.

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