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On Tuesday 30 August 2005 23:36, Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:45:24 -0400 |
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> Olivier Crete <tester@g.o> wrote: |
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> > You are comparing apples and oranges.. Most of the herd devs only |
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> > have x86 and are not able to test amd64. That's the main difference. |
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> Most of the mips devs only have 64-bit big endian SGI hardware, and |
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> aren't able to test on little-endian systems. Endianness issues are at |
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> least as big a problem as 64-bit issues when porting software. |
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This architecture however has the advantage that most upstream software is |
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written for 32 bit little endian (read x86) systems. Most times using |
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64bit big endian weeds out the cases where upstream developers made |
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incorrect assumptions on the architecture. As such, when it works on such |
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a system it's likely to work on variations too that are 32bit or little |
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endian. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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