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> > FWIW - AIX aggrees with Solaris.

> Endiannes, or an SVR4 implementation difference?

OS X agrees with FreeBSD i386. In fact, FreeBSD sparc64 and FreeBSD
alpha are all the same too, so it seems the code isn't too sensitive
to byteorder or wordsize.

Bakul's comments on who agrees with BSD 4.{2,3,4}-* probably explain
the differences.

	David.

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