Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN no longer checking for solaris?

2021-12-06 Thread J C Nash
I'd second Uwe's point. I was one of 31 signatories to first IEEE 754 (I didn't participate in the two more recent releases, as I already tore my hair out with the details of low level bit manipulations). Before the standard, porting code was truly a nightmare. We did it because we had to and w

[R-pkg-devel] CRAN winter break Dec 21 to Jan 3

2021-12-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
Dear package developers, CRAN will close its incoming submission queue on Dec 21 and will open it again on Jan 3. Best, Uwe Ligges __ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel

Re: [R-pkg-devel] CRAN no longer checking for solaris?

2021-12-06 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 06.12.2021 03:09, Avraham Adler wrote: Would this mean we could start using little endian bit strings, as I think only the Solaris platform was big endian (or was it the other way around)? It depends on the hardware, not the OS. CRAN checked on Intel CPUs, which are little endian while fo