Bug#446123: bugfix for endianness?

Michel Dänzer daenzer at debian.org
Fri Jan 11 10:21:46 PST 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 17:52 +0000, Adam Bartley wrote:
> I noticed on the freedesktop.org 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.


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