[uml-devel] Re: Bug in COW format - 64-bit incompatible with 32-bit due to struct padding (was: Re: [uml-user] uml_moo and large files)

[Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>]

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 22:13, Joel Palmius wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > So we need an utility doing just the setup and the writeout. Should be
> > easy to do, but I must learn the complete COW API. I will dismiss this
> > task if I see (as it seems) that there are no existing COW files.

> Personally I stopped trusting COW files once I saw I couldn't moo them, so
> I simply haven't used COWs. I guess most people trying COWs on an amd64
> system with 32bit umls would reach the same conclusion pretty fast.

I do exactly this, but I never use uml_moo (until the other day, when I saw 
this crash, remembered your report and successfully debugged it).
-- 
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Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894)
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