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In article <WARREN.93Jan20172646@stormy.atmos.washington.edu>,
warren@atmos.washington.edu (David Warren) writes:
|> Has anyone successfully used xdr routines on an alpha for reading or
|> writing longs. The ALPHA doesn't seem to know that a long by xdr
|> definition is only 32 bits. I am trying to build the UNIDATA netcdf
|> library (scientific data format) which uses xdr format. It is trying
|> to use the xdr library that comes with the ALPHA and the tests fail
|> because the ALPHA can't get longs correct.
|> --

xdr_long() on OSF/1 Alpha DOES adhere to the internet RFC 1014 (XDR)
and is really xdr_int() (just like ntohl() on OSF/1 Alpha is really a
network-to-host-int). Beware that if you declare a variable as a long
on OSF/1 Alpha, you will be getting a 64 bit integer. Hence if you try
to xdr_long() this 64 bit quantity, you would not get the same results
as on a 32 bit OS. You should really be applying xdr_long() ONLY to
"ints" on OSF/1 Alpha.

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