On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 04:34:33PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > Could you complement the above list of arches / unames / personalities > combination for powerpc / powerpc64 and sparc / sparc64 if it makes > sense? Does it make sense to support m68k, arm etc. for a 64-bits > personality?
I don't think that 64-bit variants of pango/gtk make sense except on architectures that have native 64-bit ports; whoever said "I'd like it if my GUI would use more memory for storing pointers"? The high-end computing apps that need 64-bit address space tend to not to be GUIs, and the architectures where 64-bit mode isn't a performance penalty for general-purpose computing have 64-bit ports. So i386/ia64 and i386/amd64 are the only biarch cases where having gtk for the non-default ABI makes much sense. Only when you get into multiarch do you start getting other scenarios where gtk might be beneficial for alternative ABIs (though mostly for development/testing reasons, not because running a gtk app under qemu is particularly beneficial :). -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
