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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Bug on Sun 3's (Perl 4.000)
Message-ID: <127635@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 6 Apr 91 00:05:49 GMT
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In article <MITCH.91Apr5134209@hq.af.mil> mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) writes:
?Well, 
?	I think I've found a bug, though I'm hoping that I've just done
?something wrong.

Your hope is justified.

?This program works on my Sun386i (SunOS 4.0.2) just fine, but refuses to
?work on our Sun 3/180S under SunOS 4.1.

No, it just works differently.

?#!/usr/gnu/perl
?#
?print unpack("H2", pack("I", 97));
?
?
?On the 386i it prints 61 as expected [by me at least].
?
?On the Sun 3/180, it prints 00.

One is Big Endian, the other Little Endian.

To see the difference, change "H2" to "H2H2H2H2"
and run on both machines.
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