From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1b551e3318e4c1a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-08 11:38:05 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!falcon.america.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!dvdeug From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why isn't there Visual Ada? Date: 8 Feb 2001 13:20:38 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <95u6f6$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <94jki1$eha$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <732FACF8BF7E8D79.8125E7BE5B617E0B.B3DBC49334E8E3C4@lp.airnews.net> <20010207.15581000@buzco.penguinpowered.com> <87bssdpkjl.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e5089.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5015 Date: 2001-02-08T13:20:38+00:00 List-Id: On 08 Feb 2001 10:54:06 +0100, Florian Weimer 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. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg