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| 5 | magnus | 1 | Author: James Morrison <phython@debian.org> |
| 2 | Description: Document stupidity of tartype_t in libtar.c. |
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| 3 | Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/309945 |
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| 4 | |||
| 5 | --- a/libtar/libtar.c |
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| 6 | +++ b/libtar/libtar.c |
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| 7 | @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ |
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| 8 | #include <sys/param.h> |
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| 9 | |||
| 10 | #ifdef STDC_HEADERS |
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| 11 | +# include <stdlib.h> |
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| 12 | # include <string.h> |
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| 13 | #endif |
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| 14 | |||
| 15 | @@ -91,6 +92,10 @@ gzopen_frontend(char *pathname, int ofla |
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| 16 | return -1; |
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| 17 | } |
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| 19 | + /* This is a bad thing to do on big-endian lp64 systems, where the |
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| 20 | + size and placement of integers is different than pointers. |
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| 21 | + However, to fix the problem 4 wrapper functions would be needed and |
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| 22 | + an extra bit of data associating GZF with the wrapper functions. */ |
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| 23 | return (int)gzf; |
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| 24 | } |
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| 25 |