Re: Getting net/cdpd to work on aarch64

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost (Jason Mitchell) writes:

>Long story short, it looks like getopt is returning 255 after parsing 
>the arguments, so changing the top line 
>to "while((c=getopt(argc,argv,"i:dt:hoa"))!=255" makes things work 
>now on arm. But the same change causes the amd64 version to fail because 
>on amd64 getopt returns -1 when done. I'm a very poor c programmer so 
>I'm hoping someone can figure out how to fix things so cdpd runs on both 
>x86 and arm architectures.

'c' is probably a char variable, which is 'signed char' on x86
but 'unsigned char' on arm. On arm it can never have a negative
value.

You need to make 'c' an int variable.