[krbdev.mit.edu #1714] starttime marshalling bug on 64bit platforms in krb524d

Tom Yu via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Thu Aug 7 19:04:51 EDT 2003


>>>>> "Cesar" == Cesar Garcia via RT <rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu> writes:

Cesar> Hmm, not totally. Would appear the code in libkrb4 assumes big
Cesar> endian. (as explained in original mail - code did not work on
Cesar> little endian platforms - e.g., RedHat AS 2.1 on intel, patch
Cesar> addresses this by determining big or little endian and handling
Cesar> accordingly).

Not exactly... in krb5-1.3, libkrb4 has been modified to
unconditionally emit big-endian encodings, regardless of the
endianness of the machine, but will accept either little-endian or
big-endian.

---Tom



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