Please don't cc openafs-bugs when you post to openafs-info. Then every
clever person who just replies to all opens a new bug.
Post twice, or bcc openafs-bugs or something.
I'll take care of this.
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Rainer Toebbicke wrote:
Some xdr_XXXX routines in src/rx use osi_alloc() which is defined as
returning a char * in rx_misc.c, but do not declare it.
Consequently, the function call is considered to return an int which
truncates the pointer on systems (e.g. ia64) where an intis shorter than a
char *. Affected are xdr_array.c (hence everything calling pr_SNameToId())
and xdr_reference.c.
The attached patch declares osi_alloc by including the "rx.h" file which also
deals with the special cases (e.g. the different #define for kernel code).
Remark: somebody has obviously noticed this already and tried to cast the
result of osi_alloc using (caddr_t) - I see an xdr_arrayn.c there which has
this. BUT: it does not work like that - casting an int to something bigger
doesn't recover the previous contents.
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Rainer Toebbicke
European Laboratory for Particle Physics(CERN) - Geneva, Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 767 8985 Fax: +41 22 767 7155
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