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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Why isn't there Visual Ada?
Date: 08 Feb 2001 21:32:50 +0100
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dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:

> On 08 Feb 2001 10:54:06 +0100, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> >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.
> 
> A lot of software? Pretty much anything shipped with Debian or RedHat has
> been compiled and probably run on Alphas and other architectures. 

This is just a fraction in comparison to what is announced via
channels like Freshmeat.