Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 22:12:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: tlambert@primenet.com Cc: eivind@yes.no, rnordier@nordier.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning Message-ID: <199805300312.WAA02058@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199805292120.OAA14978@usr04.primenet.com> (message from Terry Lambert on Fri, 29 May 1998 21:20:43 %2B0000 (GMT)) References: <199805292120.OAA14978@usr04.primenet.com>
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>>> * Possibilities for exploiting the cross-CPU nature of XANDF >> How are XANDF's cross-cpu capabilities more powerful than gcc's? > You can distribute "binaries" and localize them to an architecture at > install time. > This means you can distribute commercial code that will run on x86, > Alpha, MIPS, PPC, 68k, VAX, SPARC, etc., etc.. Does it have problems with endianness, et al? That is, if a program, at compile time, needs to know its endianness (or another architecture-dependant detail), does it still work? > For FreeBSD, this means one "ports" CDROM will work for all future > architectures. I'll consider that an advantage when I see more architectures. > It also means that one "ports" CDROM will work for FreeBSD 3.x and > FreeBSD 235.x. A case of Bushmill's goes to the first person who shows me a port that bitrot doesn't kill before FreeBSD 235. (Memo to myself: add this to my will...) >>> * Better error checking/control >> How do you mean? > Full mapping of the error checking and warning space. GCC only maps > the parts that they thought were important, and then it's done pretty > haphazardly. Mapping, you mean, to diagnostics? -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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