[CF-Devel] bug in some libc 64 bit parsing

Tue Mar 18 00:48:51 CST 2003

     huet.o at free.fr

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      Hello,

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      I took the last cvs snapshot of Crossfire Server, and I had a problem when I

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      launch the compiled server : the "experience" table don't load at the first

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      "big" (real 64 bit) level value (12 I think).

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      After some tracing, I noticed it's because my "atoll" libc function is broken

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      (the one with GLIBC_2.1.1 of a Mandrake/Redhat 6.0 Linux Distribution on x86).

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      atoll in this version of the libc+distribution act on 32 bit values only : see

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      example of this program :

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  I'd note that redhat 6.0 is pretty darn old.

  I'm a bit mixed on this.  On the one hand, I'd like for crossfire to work on 
as many systems as reasonably possible (however if that was really the case, 
then I shouldn't use long long).  OTOH, I really don't want to include functions 
for every call that may not work quite right on every system.

  This is more of a problem - this isn't an issue of missing a function (in 
which case something like a #ifndef HAVE_ATOLL myatoll() ... #endif) - something 
like a myatoll would be needed.

  this poses problems in that a developer could use the wrong call someplace, 
getting the wrong behaviour.  It also means that if the OS in question has a 
more optimized version, that won't get used.

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