Will there be a 5.3.1?

Pete French petefrench at ticketswitch.com
Tue Dec 21 11:08:52 PST 2004


> It's the C language. While it's claimed to be "portable," it really doesn't
> address integer size and endianism well enough.

All the more reason to be careful you might have thought :-) Mind you,
trying to explain to students why 'long x = 65535;' set x equal to -1
always made me feel like I was trying to appologise for the indefensible!

> Which ports were causing you headaches?

Unfortunately I really can't remember off the top of my head. I didn't
spend too long on it - it was probably amongst some of the stuff GNUstep
needs to work with, as the aim of setting the box up was to try and clean
up any 32/64 issues there. I intended to go back to it properly and work
out exactly what was going wrong at some point, but have not yet had the
time. Sorry, not very helpful I know :-(

-pcf.


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