Re: COUNTER64 Error

Sean Dilda <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dave Shield wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 20:08 +0530, [email protected] wrote:
> 
>>Thanks for ur inputs
> 
> 
>>count.high = lval&0xffffffff00000000;
> 
> 
> I'm very suspicious about this.
> count.high should be a 32-bit value
> (containing the upper-32 bits of the
> full 64-bit value).
> 
> The code you show doesn't seem to do this.
> I'm no 64-bit expert, but I'm not at all
> convinced this is correct.
> 
> Hopefully someone more knowledgable than
> me will chip in....
> 

Your correct. The method he is using will work fine for any value that 
can be expressed as a 32-bit value.  However, he's always setting .high 
to 0, so he'll never be able to express a value that goes beyond 32-bits.


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