On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Federico G. Schwindt <fg...@lodoss.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 05:13:44PM -0800, patrick keshishian wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Federico G. Schwindt <fg...@lodoss.net> 
>> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 03:15:11PM -0800, patrick keshishian wrote:
>> >> http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=129372769129646&w=2
>> >>
>> >> I never got any replies of "yes", "maybe", "you are out of your
>> >> freaking mind", etc.
>> >
>> > ?what about something like this:
>> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=300289?
>> > ?looks simpler imho.
>>
>> The libhfsp/src/swab.h source on debian link seems different than what
>> I see in hfsplus_1.0.4.src.tar.bz2 (just downloaded).
>>
>> MD5 (hfsplus_1.0.4.src.tar.bz2) = 18fa1efb5432469357ffa6bfa7c08fcd
>> size: 185461
>>
>>
>> Either way, I don't think the dabian patch is correct; at least not
>> entirely. They propose:
>>
>> -#define bswabU16_inc(ptr) (*((UInt16*) (ptr))++)
>> +#define bswabU16_inc(ptr) ptr = (UInt16*)ptr + 1
>>
>> which will change the following (from btree.c):
>>
>>     node->num_rec   = bswabU16_inc(p);
>>     node->reserved  = bswabU16_inc(p);
>>
>> to:
>>     node->num_rec   = p = (UInt16*)p + 1;
>>     node->reserved  = p = (UInt16*)p +1;
>>
>> I seriously doubt this is the intent of the original code.
>
>  ok, assuming they wanted "*p; *p++" i believe you can do:

No. The intent is:

        some_integer_type = *(some_integer_type*)p;
        p = (some_interger_type*)p + sizeof(some_integer_type);

--patrick


>
> #define bswabU16_inc(ptr)  ((*((UInt16*)(ptr)))++)
>
>  and will give you the right result.
>
>  f.-
>

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