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
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