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Stephen Bennett wrote: [Tue Aug 30 2005, 11:26:40AM CDT] |
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> > With your experience what are the pro and cons of merging different |
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> > archs ? |
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> Fewer different keywords to manage makes for easier maintenance in most |
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> cases. If mips had 6 different keywords for different ABIs/endianness |
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> we'd never get anything done. |
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For me, one problem with merging amd64 and x86 the way that the mips folks |
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handle their various flavors is the not-so-minor fact that I have no |
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idea how mips does whatever magic they do to make things work, so all I |
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can do right now is say "That sounds like a good idea in principle, but, |
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gosh, it sounds awfully hard!" Perhaps this discussion might actually |
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go somewhere useful if people could be pointed to how one makes this |
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sort of thing work in practice? I'm more than happy to read the fine |
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manual, once I know which one that is.... |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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