Bug#446123: bugfix for endianness?

["Adam Bartley" <adam.bartley@gmail.com>]

Ok, I can see why that is good coding practice on one level, but on the other hand a piece of code has been out in January 2008 which had been shown to be faulty months before in 2007. Maybe it should have been held out of circulation until the authors can come up with a solution?

On Jan 11, 2008 6:21 PM, Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 17:52 +0000, Adam Bartley wrote:
> I noticed on the freedesktop.org bugerport that a fix for this problem
> was *not* going to be released. is this true?

Yes, because it's not a 'fix' but two hacks which together happen to
work. Nobody including the author(s) of the broken code seems to
understand how it's supposed to work in an endianness neutral manner.


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