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Re: On PPC64, the parsing of integers on the commandline is bitshifted.

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Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date
Aug 7, 2008, 21:34 UTC
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Brandon Casey wrote:
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> Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>> In a 64-bit userland, big-endian environment, the parser gets integers
>> wrong.
> 
> There is a fix on master. Can you try that out?
> Unfortunately, looks like it did not make it into 1.5.6.5

Also, just so you know, it is test-parse-options.c that is broken, not the parsing code. So, the rest of git should be using an int with OPT_INTEGER() and should operate correctly.

-brandon
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Message 3 of 5 in “On PPC64, the parsing of integers on the commandline is bitshifted.”
  1. Robin H. JohnsonAug 7, 2008
  2. Brandon CaseyAug 7, 2008
  3. Brandon CaseyAug 7, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 7, 2008
  5. Pierre HabouzitAug 8, 2008

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