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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: kmail under Solaris and Linux
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-02-01 22:36:24
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On Thursday 31 January 2002 11:02 pm, Michael Häckel wrote:
> BTW: At one place we do already byte swapping, because the byte order in a
> QString changed between Qt2 and Qt3 at least on Linux. But this code is
> only called, for the few headers that are actually displayed and not when
> just reading the index file. I still don't know, if index files on Solaris
> are now compatible between KDE 2.2 and KDE 3 or not.

I don't think so, because Qt2 used network ordering (MSB first) on linux/unix. 
and Qt3 uses host ordering. Host ordering is LSB first on Intel, but MSB 
first on Sparc, so for the Sparc there was no change between Qt2 and Qt3, yet 
KMail swaps them there as well...

Will fix...

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
bastian@kde.org  |   SuSE Labs KDE Developer  |  bastian@suse.com

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