From: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:34:00 GMT
Subject: Re: On PPC64, the parsing of integers on the commandline is bitshifted.
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Brandon Casey wrote:
> 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