04 Nov 16 13:46, you wrote to Matt Bedynek:

 MB>> When I started trying to setup jamnntpd here I noticed that when
 MB>> posting messages it would corrupt a message base or not see all the
 MB>> messages.  I concluded it was an alignment error because the int's
 MB>> used in the library are not of size specific.  the sizeof an int can
 MB>> vary on architectures..  So when jamnntp's jamlib is built on a 64
 MB>> bit platform some of them are wrong size.

 MB>> It wouldn't take much to go thru the code and fix this, or simply
 MB>> build it with -m32 option (which I tested and works fine).

 RC> DING!! DING!!

 RC> Well you have spilled the beans as it were.. I've been digging through
 RC> that circular bug mess on this exact issue..

i don't recall you saying anything about 64bit :(  i hope this alignment stuff
makes it into the rest of the code bases soonish... i was actually
contemplating taking my code on my production OS/2 box and copying it over to
my 64bit ubuntu box and letting it fly... i will thank you for stepping into
that mess and bringing the bitness problem to light... i have to wonder who
else has fallen into that trap without knowing it? rossC over at 123/500 has a
very popular jamnntpd server and there has been some weirdness problems there
that may be due to this bitness stuff... i don't know and i don't know what
bitness he has compiled his jamnntpd for... he does use HPT for his tosser,
IIRC... i think it does 32bit and 64bit as i'm using it on this 64bit ubuntu
box and i compiled HPT here with no bitness stuff specified...

[trim]

 RC> So is the V1.3 code at the SF stuff *correct* for *64b* operation or
 RC> no one knows as for some reason every one is using 32b??? And the only
 RC> other working server user seems to be using OS/2 ... although his bug
 RC> patch was added to the V1.3 code on 9/10/16.....

i don't know which bug patch that was... i posted several of them to this echo
over a couple of weeks... i haven't been back into the code since then... i
also hope you aren't mixing me up with jame or anyone else... jame is the one
managing the ftnapps repo...


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