On 26.06.2015 15:23, Rafael dos Santos wrote:
>> the variant tests added with commit d0c52b8bb are failing on big endian
>> machines. As it can be seen from the log output below, the VariantClass
>> field is always empty.
>>
>> Could somebody help me debug the issue and/or point me on the right direction
>> about looking into it?
>
> I found the culprit. On the GVariant.xs file, we have:
>
> const char * g_variant_classify (GVariant *value);
> PREINIT:
> GVariantClass vclass;
> CODE:
> vclass = g_variant_classify (value);
> RETVAL = (const char *) &vclass;
> OUTPUT:
> RETVAL
>
> The RETVAL value will be arch-dependent because of the way it's accessed. I'm
> not familiar with .xs syntax, so what's the way to deal with endianness on
> this type of files?
Does this work?
const char * g_variant_classify (GVariant *value);
PREINIT:
GVariantClass vclass;
CODE:
vclass = g_variant_classify (value);
RETVAL = (const char *) &((char) vclass);
OUTPUT:
RETVAL
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