From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Mon Aug 24 14:52:44 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC5DA9C1B65 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:52:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB3A51FE for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:52:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id BA3E59C1B63; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:52:44 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9C6A9C1B62 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:52:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp10.server.rpi.edu (gateway.canit.rpi.edu [128.113.2.230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "canit.localdomain", Issuer "canit.localdomain" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7BB9F1FD for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:52:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp-auth2.server.rpi.edu (smtp-auth2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.232]) by smtp10.server.rpi.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id t7OEqIbf002151 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:52:18 -0400 Received: from smtp-auth2.server.rpi.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp-auth2.server.rpi.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E3C18041; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:52:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [169.254.40.79] (gilead-qc124.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.124.17]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: drosih) by smtp-auth2.server.rpi.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 573861800D; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:52:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Garance A Drosehn" To: ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: "Sakib Alam" , "Stefan Parmark" Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: converters/btoa Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:52:28 -0400 Message-ID: <9D251665-2DDC-4CF5-8A8C-CEB5B2033B9E@rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MailMate (1.9.1r5084) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: outgoing, @@RPTN) X-Spam-Score: 0.00 () [Hold at 7.10] X-CanIt-Incident-Id: 03P8CQij6 X-CanIt-Geo: ip=128.113.124.17; country=US; region=New York; city=Troy; latitude=42.7495; longitude=-73.5951; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.7495,-73.5951&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: outgoing X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.2.230 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:52:45 -0000 On 20 Aug 2015, at 20:43, Sakib Alam wrote: > Sami.bd19@gmail.com > ___________________ I have no idea what Sakib intended to say about the btoa (binary to ascii) program. But earlier this year I did notice that there's a bug in it if you encode on a 32-bit platform and decode on a 64-bit platform, or visa- versa. I wrote some updates to fix that for my own use, but haven't tried to send those changes to whoever is currently responsible for the program. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosih@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA