Received: from cathode-dark-space.mit.edu (CATHODE-DARK-SPACE.MIT.EDU [18.18.1.96]) by krbdev.mit.edu (8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA14556; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 19:04:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tlyu@localhost) by cathode-dark-space.mit.edu (8.9.3p2) id TAA25552; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 19:04:49 -0400 (EDT) To: rt@krbdev.mit.edu Subject: Re: [krbdev.mit.edu #1714] starttime marshalling bug on 64bit platforms in krb524d References: From: Tom Yu Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:04:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: ("Cesar Garcia via RT"'s message of "Thu, 7 Aug 2003 18:48:18 -0400 (EDT)") Message-Id: Lines: 14 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii RT-Send-Cc: X-RT-Original-Encoding: us-ascii Content-Length: 580 >>>>> "Cesar" == Cesar Garcia via RT writes: Cesar> Hmm, not totally. Would appear the code in libkrb4 assumes big Cesar> endian. (as explained in original mail - code did not work on Cesar> little endian platforms - e.g., RedHat AS 2.1 on intel, patch Cesar> addresses this by determining big or little endian and handling Cesar> accordingly). Not exactly... in krb5-1.3, libkrb4 has been modified to unconditionally emit big-endian encodings, regardless of the endianness of the machine, but will accept either little-endian or big-endian. ---Tom