From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Why isn't there Visual Ada?
Date: 08 Feb 2001 10:54:06 +0100
Date: 2001-02-08T10:54:06+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bssdpkjl.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010207.15581000@buzco.penguinpowered.com
Buz Cory <weltseer@BuzCo.PenguiPowered.com> writes:
> Further, if you are not diddling with the hardware (as you shouldn't
> be), then porting to *any* version of X/Linux from *any* other
> should be no harder than copying the package (as in distro) to the
> desired platform and typing "make". X and Linux worry about the
> architecture.
A lot of software which has been developed on a GNU/Linux system
assumes a little-endian machine with pointers and C ints which are 32
bits wide, and that the hardware does not require any alignment for
the standard types.
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2001-01-26 15:54 ` Why isn't there Visual Ada? - historical note Britt Snodgrass
2001-01-26 21:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2001-01-26 22:15 ` Pascal Obry
2001-02-07 19:21 ` aschw1309
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2001-01-27 3:17 ` Why isn't there Visual Ada? Robert Love
2001-01-27 23:47 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-02-06 8:08 ` Tomas Brixi
2001-02-07 15:58 ` Buz Cory
2001-02-07 17:02 ` David Starner
2001-02-08 9:56 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-08 9:54 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-02-08 13:20 ` David Starner
2001-02-08 20:32 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-08 21:06 ` David Starner
2001-02-09 8:31 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2001-02-09 15:39 ` David Starner
2001-02-09 22:20 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-01-26 18:05 Beard, Frank
2001-01-27 1:52 ` John English
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