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On Thursday 01 September 2005 01:39 pm, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> > I hope this not. As (iirc) I already said, it's impossible to combine x86 |
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> > with anything else that's not 100% source and binary compatible with |
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> > itself... The reason is actually simple: x86 is, or at least was, the |
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> > reference architecture for almost all programmers. |
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> Witih amd64 becoming so widespread, this will change. |
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will != now |
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maybe down the road i'd be for this, but right now i think it's just a waste |
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of time ... too many packages suck at life ... just yesterday i fixed a new |
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release (made in the last month) of a package which loved to cast pointers to |
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'int' and then try to use the result |
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-mike |
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