Bug 1914 - crashes on big endian machines (like ppc)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Build Engine
Classification: Unclassified
Component: General
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Macintosh Linux
: P2 normal
Assignee: Ryan C. Gordon
QA Contact:
URL: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?i...
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-08-26 22:47 EDT by SpanKY
Modified: 2004-08-27 02:10:04 EDT
0 users

See Also:

Attachments
20040817-endian.patch (772 bytes, patch)
2004-08-26 22:48 EDT, SpanKY

Description SpanKY 2004-08-26 22:47:59 EDT 
a user reported that while trying to run duke nukem 3d on their Gentoo PPC
machine, it'd crash with "Not enough memory for file grouping system".

he investigated it and found there were some endian mishaps in the build engine;
find attached the small patch he made
Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-08-26 22:48:25 EDT 
Created attachment 480 [details]
20040817-endian.patch
Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-08-26 22:49:01 EDT 
oh, the user has a name :)

thanks should go to Maciej J. Woloszyk
Comment 3 Ryan C. Gordon 2004-08-27 02:10:04 EDT 
This is in icculus.org's CVS now. Thanks!

--ryan.