[pups] extract old archive format?
Johnny Billquist
bqt at softjar.se
Fri Apr 9 20:23:35 AEST 2010
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:40 PM, John Holden <johnh at psych.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
>>> Well I found the ar specification (in ar.5 not ar.1).
>>>
>>> struct ar_hdr {
>>> char ar_name[14];
>>> long ar_date;
>>> char ar_uid;
>>> char ar_gid;
>>> int ar_mode;
>>> long ar_size;
>>> };
>> Endian should not be a problem on a Intel/AMD processor. More likely your C
>> compiler is padding out the array for alignment. Try a '-fpack-struct' or
>> more safely, read the elements individually rather than a structure.
>>
>
> In the PDP-11 long is 32 bits, int 16 bits. And the PDP-11 is
> determinedly little-endian if you stick to integers.
Um? Longs are integers, and they are middle-endian...
> They got floating-point software right in 1971, but somebody screwed
> up the word order when building FP hardware, which led to the
> middle-endian mess.
...but yes. The middle-endian long issue appeared with the FPP, since
that is the only hardware that deals natively with long integers.
Johnny
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