[libvirt] [PATCH] nwfilter: fix an bug appearing on big endian machines

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 02:21:56PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
>  Either one of the following patches fixes a bug appearing on big 
> endian machines where the returned XML is not the one that is expected 
> (see test/nwfilterxml2xmltest). The problem is due to for example the 
> casting of a pointers to unsigned integers to void * and then back to 16 
> bit integers.
> 
> I have prepared 2 different solutions for the problem. I think the one 
> with the union is the better one, which I am posting before the shorted 
> solution. Both solutions make the nwfilterxml2xmltest pass on a ppc64 
> machine.

I'd pick the one with the union too, so ACK to that one.

Daniel
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