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From: Cathryn Mataga <cathryn@junglevision.com>
To: Pidoux <bernard.pidoux@upmc.fr>
Cc: linux-hams <linux-hams@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfbbd: Run the same data files on 64-bit
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 17:15:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D8B30E.40401@junglevision.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0A70646B-CB6F-4FBE-8D10-767502DD78B6@upmc.fr>

On 7/6/2013 2:24 PM, Pidoux wrote:
> Hi Cathryn,
>
> Thank you for your message.
> I have been using FBB 7.05e on a 64 bits machine for a while with Mandriva and somce lat year with Mageia Linux distro without problem.
 >However I never tried to import any data from a previous 32 bits 
install for I do not see any necessity to do that.

Yeah, what happened to me was I upgraded and then all my messages/users 
went away because the 64/32 bit issue.  Basically the structures for 
files suck as inf.sys (which contain the user list) use 'long'  which is 
64-bits on 64 bit systems and 32-bits on 32-bit systems.  So when you 
upgrade from 32 to 64 bits all the data is lost.

However, this change would cause issues for anyone now who has been 
64-bit since the change.   I can send again in the correct format but 
with an #ifdef  so that it can only be turned on only for people who 
need it.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-07  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-14 18:58 [PATCH] xfbbd: Fix issue with xfbbd and AX25 radio connections Bernard Pidoux
2013-07-05 21:20 ` [PATCH] xfbbd: Run the same data files on 64-bit Cathryn Mataga
2013-07-06 21:24   ` Pidoux
2013-07-07  0:15     ` Cathryn Mataga [this message]
2013-07-16  3:09     ` Cathryn Mataga

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