Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] to run on IA64

[Atsushi SAKAI <sakaia jp fujitsu com>]

Hi, Dan

Thank you for your reply, current IA64 is in most cases (like Linux)
uses Little endian at this moment.
So This is for question related to virt-manager future support.

Thanks
Atsushi SAKAI

"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:50:51PM +0900, Atsushi SAKAI wrote:
> > Hi, Dan
> > 
> > Thank you for your comments.
> > 1) This patch is for rpmbuild failure on IA64.
> >       see the attached log (it is stopped in conf.c compilation)
> > 
> > 2) About above fixes code.(endian issue)
> >    Sorry for short discripting this issue.
> >    My point is you are casting (unsigned int*) for unsigned char.
> >    In little endian, this works fine?$B!!(conf.c).
> >    But big endian case, this inputs "00" for character value.
> 
> Ahhhhhhhh. That makes much more sense to me now - explains why I never
> saw any problem on x86_64/i686. Will fix this in CVS.
> 
> > conf.c: In function 'qemudParseInterfaceXML':
> > conf.c:450: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> > conf.c:451: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> > conf.c:452: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> > conf.c:453: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> > conf.c:454: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> > conf.c:455: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> > make[2]: *** [libvirt_qemud-conf.o] Error 1
> > make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/sakaia/rpmbuild/BUILD/libvirt-0.2.0/qemud'
> > make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sakaia/rpmbuild/BUILD/libvirt-0.2.0'
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.48812 (%build)
> > 
> 
> Dan.
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