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Re: LONG - reads 4 or 8 bytes?? [message #51901 is a reply to message #51900]

Tue, 12 December 2006 13:39

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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subir writes:

> I would appreciate if someone could help me with a problem that we are
> having. I am trying to use the LONG function to convert bytes in to a
> longword.
>
> On the first workstation (Solaris 10, PV-Wave v 8.51) LONG reads 8
> bytes from the input byte array. However, on the second workstation
> (Solaris 10, PV-Wave v8.50), LONG reads only the first 4 bytes! Is
> there a configuration setting that needs to be set for LONG to read 8
> bytes instead of 4. Has anybody out there had a similar problem?

This sounds, well, unlikely. What evidence do you
have for it?

Cheers,

David

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		Re: LONG - reads 4 or 8 bytes?? By: Rick Towler on Wed, 13 December 2006 09:25
		Re: LONG - reads 4 or 8 bytes?? By: subir.vasanth on Wed, 13 December 2006 08:37
		Re: LONG - reads 4 or 8 bytes?? By: Rick Towler on Tue, 12 December 2006 15:12
		Re: LONG - reads 4 or 8 bytes?? By: David Fanning on Tue, 12 December 2006 13:39

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