From: "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com>
Subject: Re: Why isn't there Visual Ada?
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 09:31:11 +0100
Date: 2001-02-09T09:31:11+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9609sg$f410@news.kvaerner.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 95u6f6$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu
David Starner wrote
>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.
It does not neccessarily mean that the software work in 64 bit mode. Many, if
not all 64 bit machines support a 32 bit pointer environment with 32 bit
integers.
Greetings,
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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
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 [this message]
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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