Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 11:38:29 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems Message-ID: <20010707113829.A16759@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpg0cat2mo.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:59:27PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107032130460.8432-100000@beppo> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107032133380.8432-100000@beppo> <20010704001222.B49299@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010705174956.C15136@dragon.nuxi.com> <xzpg0cat2mo.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 06:59:27PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> writes: > > People are making more and more mistakes that break the Alpha build. > > We will soon have two more arches. > > ...which won't really make much difference, as 99% of the difference > in userland code is integer and pointer sizes, so for all practical > purposes (when working on userland code) Alpha, IA64 and Sparc64 will > be equivalent, as will i386 and PowerPC. Not fully -- PowerPC and sparc64 are big-endian. So there could be warning issues with the change in endian'ness that i386 and Alpha do not show. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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