al davis wrote:
On Friday 06 October 2006 18:34, Dan McMahill wrote:
Sorry, I can't support anything which requires GNU libc.
In my mind any thing which requires GNU libc, requires gcc,
or in some other way really limits portability is right out.
I trust that this is not a remark against GNU, but rather a
request for true portability, meaning we can't require any
particular libc, etc.
You are correct. I want the code to be portable.
I'm
certainly not willing to fall into the "all the world is is a
32-bit linux intel architecture box with gcc" trap.
You would be amazed at how many linux applications don't work on
64 bit linux, including some mainstream ones like
openoffice.org. (It appears to work now, since about mid
September.)
Actually since I've been a user of 64-bit systems (alpha) for 6 or so
years and big endian systems (m68k, sparc) for many more I'm not in the
least bit suprised. I've seen so many assumptions of sizeof(int) ==
sizeof(void *) and if(!m68k) then we_are_little_endian and #ifdef
__sparc__ /* we're running on SunOs */ that nothing will suprise me in
terms of non-portable code.
-Dan
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