On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 11:13 -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:33:35AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +0000, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> > But a total of eleven is insane. >> >> It is sometimes hard to get them all to work, yes. >> >> It also vastly increases the quality of the Free Software in our >> archive, as we discover bugs that appear only on one architecture. > >That's an overstatement. Simply having two architectures (i386 and ppc) >would be enough to reveal nearly all portability bugs.
False. Unaligned data access is a portability problem, and I've never seen a bus error on any of my PPCs or i386s[0], but I have on UltraSparc. [0] Actually, I did have my current machine (an i686) have a problem with a bus error, but that was because *somebody* (who shall remain nameless) accidentally unplugged the hard disk while the computer was running. Needless to say, the kernel did not take kindly to this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
