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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>,
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Subject: Re: chgrp broken on alpha systems
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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.
 
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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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