On Thursday 01 September 2005 01:39 pm, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > I hope this not. As (iirc) I already said, it's impossible to combine x86 > > with anything else that's not 100% source and binary compatible with > > itself... The reason is actually simple: x86 is, or at least was, the > > reference architecture for almost all programmers. > > Witih amd64 becoming so widespread, this will change.
will != now maybe down the road i'd be for this, but right now i think it's just a waste of time ... too many packages suck at life ... just yesterday i fixed a new release (made in the last month) of a package which loved to cast pointers to 'int' and then try to use the result -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list