Ok, I can see why that is good coding practice on one level, but on the other hand a piece of code has been out in January 2008 which had been shown to be faulty months before in 2007. Maybe it should have been held out of circulation until the authors can come up with a solution? <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 11, 2008 6:21 PM, Michel Dänzer <<a href="mailto:daenzer@debian.org">daenzer@debian.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 17:52 +0000, Adam Bartley wrote: > I noticed on the <a href="http://freedesktop.org" target="_blank">freedesktop.org</a> bugerport that a fix for this problem > was *not* going to be released. is this true? Yes, because it's not a 'fix' but two hacks which together happen to work. Nobody including the author(s) of the broken code seems to understand how it's supposed to work in an endianness neutral manner. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer           |          <a href="http://tungstengraphics.com" target="_blank">http://tungstengraphics.com</a> Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer </blockquote></div>