Any news on CPAN bug 32309 in DBI - faulty definition of DBIS for big-endian 64-bit machines with MULTIPLICITY

CPAN Bug 32309 was created recently, but I'm told that the underlying
problems was first reported in 2003 (though I only see DBI bugs dating back
4 years or so, so I can believe that the original bug report has now been
lost). The new bug entry includes a plausible solution (albeit not as a
patch file, but it is a one-line change).

http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=32309

It does not appear to have been fixed in DBI 1.601. The problem appears not
to affect most people - it requires a big-endian machine (such as IBM
PowerPC) running in 64-bit mode[*] where 'sizeof(int) != sizeof(void *)'
with MULTIPLICITY (or PERL_OBJECT or PERL_CAPI if I'm reading
DBIXS.hcorrectly) set.

Is there a reason why this cannot be fixed - or should not be fixed?
Colleagues of mine in India have asked about this. Is there a timeline I
can offer them for when this might be fixed in a general release of DBI?

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Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leffler@xxxxxxxxx> #include <disclaimer.h>
Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2007.0914 - http://dbi.perl.org
"Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be
amused."

[*] 64-bit mode: or it might be on a 32-bit machine with 16-bit ints, I
suppose, but that's not a plausible choice these days.

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