Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:07:25 -0700 From: Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org> To: Frank Behrens <frank@ilse.behrens.de> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r191984 - in head/sys: cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/rpc modules/zfs Message-ID: <3c1674c90905121107x2352dba1r39ae7ed9c404f78e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200905120913.n4C9DOqw032522@post.behrens.de> References: <56AB958E-2FF5-421C-9B72-1181EA265A35@rabson.org> <3c1674c90905120116l46d2fc84w789b3396419a9ede@mail.gmail.com> <200905120913.n4C9DOqw032522@post.behrens.de>
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Frank Behrens <frank@ilse.behrens.de> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org> wrote:
>> > I thought that XDR 'long' types were 32 bit regardless of whether the
>> > platform was 32 or 64 bit. I'll have to read the code again.
>
> XDR is defined in RFC 4506. It should be independent from
> architecture.
>
> "An XDR {signed,unsigned} integer is a 32-bit datum..."
> "The standard also defines 64-bit (8-byte) numbers called hyper
> integers and unsigned hyper integers."
>
That is the definition. The implementation may be something entirely
different :-)
-Kip
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