Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/gencat

[Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 04:41:47PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> >> If that isn't the case it might be better to adjust how ntohl is
> >> defined...?
> >
> > Possibly. But I didn't want to change an important global interface,
> > at least not without prior discussion.
> 
> Well, discussion time! :-)

Well, I guess it could look like this on Big Endian ports:

#define ntohl(x)        ((uint32_t)(x))

But with that definition you could compile broken code like this ...

        static char     David[] = "Holland";
        uint32_t        foo;

        foo = ntohl(David);

... on e.g. NetBSD/amiga. It would of course fail under NetBSD/i386
where ntohl() is a function that expects a uint32_t as the argument.

        Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/