Closed Bug 2720 Opened 26 years ago Closed 26 years ago

byte order dependency in XDR'd strings

Categories

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect, P2)

Product:
Core
Component:
JavaScript Engine
Platform:
All
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: shaver, Assigned: brendan)

Details

(This bug imported from BugSplat, Netscape's internal bugsystem.  It
was known there as bug #299794
http://scopus.netscape.com/bugsplat/show_bug.cgi?id=299794
Imported into Bugzilla on 01/27/99 15:35)

Strings produced by Script.prototype.freeze have a byte-order dependency.

From Bernhard Marschall (bmarsch@hyperwave.com):
> After taking a closer look, I got the impression the byte-swapping is done
> twice: once by the JS_XDRxxx calls and once in the #ifdef IS_BIG_ENDIAN
> section in script_freeze.
Marked TFV 1.4 indicating we want this bug fixed for 1.4.
Marking TFV blank; not required for 1.4.
this bug belongs with Norris now.

bjorn
Assignee: norris → brendan
Hardware: All
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
The byte-swapping is necessary to make strings (unicode vectors) platform
independent.  Viewed as byte-vectors, they'll have different contents depending
on endian-ness -- but the byte-vector in one machine is never visible to another
(only strings may be passed among machines).

/be
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Changing component to "Javascript Engine".  "Javascript" component is being
retired.
Changing component to "Javascript Engine".  "Javascript" component is being

retired.
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