On 2 July 2014 13:33, Florian Weimer <fwei...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/01/2014 11:50 AM, Ben Laurie wrote:
>>
>> Our soon-to-be-released roadmap has this to say on "supported platform":
>>
>> * Currency, i.e. a platform is widely deployed and in current use
>> * Vendor support
>> * Available to the dev team, i.e. the dev team have access to a
>> suitable environment in which to test builds and deal with tickets and
>> issues
>> * Dev team ownership, i.e. at least one person on the team is willing
>> to take some responsibility for a platform
>
>
> I strongly suggest to add "8 bit chars and 32 bit ints" as an additional
> requirement.  There is some idea that 16-bit platforms (such as MS-DOS or
> Windows prior to the Win32 API) are still supported, but this is clearly not
> the case because a lot of bounds checks assume 32-bit ints.

Are there any of these platforms that would pass the Currency/Vendor
support criteria? If so which ones?

Thanks

Matt
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