On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Todd Vierling wrote:
> : We also see a lot of this in pkgsrc
> : (ftp://jumbo.hamachi.org/pub/NetBSD/pkgstat/last/broken.html), and it
> : makes me wonder a bit why this only bites on 64bit archs...
> 
> It's because memcpy, memcmp, etc., use size_t, which is unsigned long on
> alpha, 64 bits, and a non-prototyped function will use [unsigned] int, 32
> bits.
> 
> It may work errattically on alpha by ignoring the warning, but that's only
> by virtue of the way arguments are laid out in memory thanks to little
> endianness.

Yah, and on sparc64 it'll blow chunks, I guess. :-)


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>