Bug#397632: gpart does not work on amd64
Petr Salinger
Petr.Salinger at seznam.cz
Thu Oct 2 08:42:25 UTC 2008
Hi,
the current version does not work on amd64.
There are at least two problems.
1) check for endianity
you should put into gpart.h something like
#include <endian.h>
#if defined(__BYTE_ORDER) && (__BYTE_ORDER == __BIG_ENDIAN)
...
#elif defined(__BYTE_ORDER) && (__BYTE_ORDER == __LITTLE_ENDIAN)
...
#else
#error unknown endian
#endif
2) there is used long type inside structures coming directly from disk
at least in dos_part_entry, p_start and p_size should be uint32_t
Petr
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