Re: On PPC64, the parsing of integers on the commandline is bitshifted.

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Brandon Casey <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Brandon Casey wrote:
>> Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>>> In a 64-bit userland, big-endian environment, the parser gets integers
>>> wrong.
>> 
>> There is a fix on master. Can you try that out?
>> Unfortunately, looks like it did not make it into 1.5.6.5
>
> Also, just so you know, it is test-parse-options.c that is broken, not
> the parsing code. So, the rest of git should be using an int with
> OPT_INTEGER() and should operate correctly.

Yup, that is why it is not on 'maint' --- but somebody should audit the
parse_options() users in the real programs to make sure that there is no
similar breakages, namely, giving a pointer to long to OPT_INTEGER().

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