Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:36:45 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox3 from ports? Message-ID: <g96d5t$2ajo$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <20080828093840.GA22153@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > Has anybody built firefox3 from ports on amd64? Yes. > Any particular problems encountered? No, I use it daily. > warning: cast from ... to ... increases > required alignment of target type No such warnings on amd64. I think they only show up on architectures that require strict alignment, and amd64 doesn't. FWIW, building firefox on OpenBSD/alpha and /sparc64 produces lots of these warnings, but after all the pointer casting games are done, the actual accesses still come out properly aligned and firefox runs. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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