Re: Patch for endianness issues in 4.3a

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Hi James, 

> Hi Manuel,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:41 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What do you mean? What do you think is wrong?
> 
> I just meant that even on little endian architectures, the consuming
> code is reading only 32 bits of a 64-bit value.  It doesn't break
> anything, because it happens to be reading the "right" 32 bits, and
> the "wrong" 32 bits happen to be zero.  If they weren't zero, that is
> if the code were to process a value greater than 4294967295 (or
> 2147483647 for signed values), then the code would do the wrong thing
> even on little endian architectures.
Thanks for the explanation but I'm not certain to know which code you
are refereeing to. The code that you have patched recently?

-- 
Manuel
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