Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:08:50 +0000 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: brett@lariat.org, colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk, petefrench@ticketswitch.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will there be a 5.3.1? Message-ID: <E1CgpNK-000D1Y-0Z@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20041221114103.053aa0b8@localhost>
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> It's the C language. While it's claimed to be "portable," it really doesn't > address integer size and endianism well enough. All the more reason to be careful you might have thought :-) Mind you, trying to explain to students why 'long x = 65535;' set x equal to -1 always made me feel like I was trying to appologise for the indefensible! > Which ports were causing you headaches? Unfortunately I really can't remember off the top of my head. I didn't spend too long on it - it was probably amongst some of the stuff GNUstep needs to work with, as the aim of setting the box up was to try and clean up any 32/64 issues there. I intended to go back to it properly and work out exactly what was going wrong at some point, but have not yet had the time. Sorry, not very helpful I know :-( -pcf.
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