Re: 2.4.19-rc1 broke OSF binaries on alpha

From: jlnance@intrex.net
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 08:03:53 EST


On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 03:50:58AM +0400, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote:
> +#ifdef __alpha__
> + /* Current versions of Tru64 unix are SuS compliant.
> + Unfortunately, we have to use the binaries (namely
> + Netscape and Acrobat Reader) compiled vs. older
> + versions of OSF/1, where iov_len was a 32 bit integer. */
> + ssize_t len = (int) iov[i].iov_len;
> +#else

So how does Tru64 handle this? It must have some way of knowing whether to
mask the high bits or not. If the comment above is correct then this patch
breaks new Tru64 binaries.

Jim
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