Re: Problem with ipset on sparc64

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On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 2009-11-04 22:50, Chini, Georg (HP App Services) wrote:
> > >>
> > >>I'm using ipset 3.2 on a sparc64 system (ultra2), kernel 2.6.31.5, Debian 5.
> > >>Everything works fine, but the -L option shows strange values for a portmap.
> > >
> > >
> > >If you explicitly compile ipset as a 64-bit program rather than the
> > >32-bit default that is used on sparc, will the correct values be
> > >shown?
> > >
> > >Thanks for the fast reply. I added -m64 to cc and ld options and
> > >recompiled. Is that correct? If yes, I now get a bus error instead
> > >of a wrong listing. Or do I have to change anything else?
> > 
> > Bus error means something was not quite correctly aligned
> > (yet another ipset bug).
> > 
> > The lack of cheap access to big-endian, alignment-sensitive hardware
> > means many codes do not get the testing they deserve :-/
> 
> Yes, that's exaxtly. Funnily enough a few years ago I toyed the idea to 
> buy a thrown out SPARCCenter2000 but I didn't have enough power in my 
> place to boot up such a machine...

In a few days I'll be able to use an Ultra 10 for testing - that'll settle 
the validating on big endian hardware.

Best regards,
Jozsef
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