> 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. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
