PS> Hi Bo! :-)

Hi Pascal,

 BS> I'm looking into this issue because it looks like 
 BS> that SquishMail has 
 BS> problems my reading a packed (__attribute__(packed)) structure from 
 BS> diskfile written on a little endian machine.

 PS> No guesses please, show us the structure definition. :)

It would be no-sence to show you the whole structure, so here's just a bit
of it:

struct _pkthdr
{
  sword orig_node;        /* originating node                           */
  sword dest_node;        /* destination node                           */
}  __attribute__((packed, aligned(2)));

The structure contains most words and a couple of bytes.

It's beeing readed by

read(fp, &pkthdr, sizeof(struct _pkthdr));

Should I read every single variable in the structure to get it working?

Bo




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