bin/86805: [PATCH] savecore fails to byteswap architectureversion field

Maxim Konovalov maxim at macomnet.ru
Sat Oct 1 17:10:23 PDT 2005


The following reply was made to PR bin/86805; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim at macomnet.ru>
To: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/86805: [PATCH] savecore fails to byteswap architectureversion
 field
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 04:06:47 +0400 (MSD)

 Hi,
 
 [...]
 > Note that 33554432 = 0x02000000, i.e. it needs to be byte swapped
 > but hasn't been.  This problem isn't amd64 specific, it seems to
 > affect all little-endian platforms, and was introduced (seemingly
 > accidentally) in version 1.71 of src/sbin/savecore.c
 
 Do you mean rev. 1.72?
 
 -- 
 Maxim Konovalov


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