Re: 64-bit Libraries [Was Re: Gnome 1.4 / Linux 2.4.x]
- From: "Mark Murnane" <Mark Murnane ireland sun com>
- To: "Elliot Lee" <sopwith redhat com>, "Drazen Kacar" <dave arsdigita com>
- Cc: "Daniel Veillard" <Daniel Veillard imag fr>, <gnome-hackers gnome org>
- Subject: Re: 64-bit Libraries [Was Re: Gnome 1.4 / Linux 2.4.x]
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 20:31:11 -0000
Well that's fine by me. Makes my life easier!
:-)
Mark
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Drazen Kacar wrote:
>
> > It's not a guarantee, because Alpha is little endian and some buggy
things
> > would still work as intended on it. And there might be other differences
> > between systems, like sizeof(time_t).
>
> Linux/Alpha has 64-bit time_t. Endianness issues have been solved by lots
> of people running things on the Sparc, PPC, ARM, etc.
>
> Not saying everything is perfect, just perfect enough to work.
> -- Elliot
> Who me? I just wander from room to room.
>
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