Re: gcc bug causes parted to write bad GPT entries

[Andrew Clausen]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 04:04:54PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > > This is untested, but I think you'll get the idea.  This should be
> > > much better because it works independent of the host's byte-order and
> > > doesn't require using gcc-only extensions to C.  It will also work
> > > around the compiler bug until that gets fixed.
> 
> Please see the libuuid code to do the same.  It has "pack" and "unpack"
> functions which handle this nicely.

Are you talking about uuid_[un]parse()?

They only (un)parse to/from strings, which doesn't help much with
extracting info out of the uuid.

Andrew