Re: NSControls failing to set status/label on BigEndian/64bit

[Fred Kiefer]

> Am 06.01.2021 um 17:20 schrieb Wolfgang Lux <wolfgang.lux@gmail.com>:
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>> Am 06.01.2021 um 17:15 schrieb Wolfgang Lux <wolfgang.lux@gmail.com>:
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>>> Am 06.01.2021 um 15:41 schrieb Fred Kiefer <FredKiefer@gmx.de>:
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>>> The next step would be to compare these values with the ones you get on 
>>> amd64. But before that, could you please run the base tests on ppc64? Maybe 
>>> you get already a failing test there and this would just explain the 
>>> behaviour. We always should start looking for an issue from ground up. If 
>>> base is already broken there is no use in trying to pin it down in gui.
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>> I don’t think you need any further testing. The _highlightsByMask member is 
>> declared as NSInteger in NSButtonCell.h (which means 64 bits on x86-64 and 
>> ppc64) but unarchived as unsigned int in NSButtonCell.m (which means 32 
>> bits) and big endian architectures as less forgiving on such mismatches.
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>> The same applies to (at least) _showAltState mask.
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> And encodeWithCoder: seems to get this wrong for both members, too.

Thank you Wolfgang,

I will try to correct the code there.

Cheers,
Fred