Re: ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2014-11-28 Thread Riku Voipio
Hi, On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:50:26AM +, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo Some suggestions for improving this table: 1. About half of the table is taken up with sizeof information, some of which could be expressed more concisely. (Are all

ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2014-11-27 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo Some suggestions for improving this table: 1. About half of the table is taken up with sizeof information, some of which could be expressed more concisely. (Are all Debian architectures ILP32 or LP64? Any rare exceptions could be described

Re: ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2014-11-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: of which could be expressed more concisely. (Are all Debian architectures ILP32 or LP64? Any rare exceptions could be described in I think so. Probably even all Linux architectures? 4. I'd like to see some information about va_list added as

Re: ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2014-11-27 Thread Michael Tautschnig
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:50:26 +, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo Some suggestions for improving this table: 1. About half of the table is taken up with sizeof information, some of which could be expressed more concisely. (Are all Debian

Re: Reviewing http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2008-04-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 12:29 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Cyril Brulebois: I'm wondering whether the ArchitectureSpecificsMemo[1] wiki page is (well-)known, and whether its content got reviewed, esp. by porters of each architecture, who could fix obvious errors or typos, or eventually

Re: Reviewing http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2008-04-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 00:15 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: I looked at the page: this seems like an appropriate moment to mention something that should be a lot more widely known than it is: sizeof(char) == 1 sizeof(signed char) == 1 sizeof(unsigned char) == 1 Those three

Re: Reviewing http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2008-04-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: sizeof(char) == 1 I just removed them for this reason. Maybe we need to specify CHAR_BITS instead? Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Reviewing http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2008-04-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 20:21 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: sizeof(char) == 1 I just removed them for this reason. Maybe we need to specify CHAR_BITS instead? Maybe some day Debian will run on an architecture where CHAR_BITS != 8, but I doubt it;

Re: Reviewing http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2008-04-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bernd Eckenfels: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: sizeof(char) == 1 I just removed them for this reason. Maybe we need to specify CHAR_BITS instead? Too much Java programming? 8-) POSIX requires CHAR_BITS to be 8 these days. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reviewing http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2008-04-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, I'm wondering whether the ArchitectureSpecificsMemo[1] wiki page is (well-)known, and whether its content got reviewed, esp. by porters of each architecture, who could fix obvious errors or typos, or eventually add special-cases, exceptions, and the like. 1. http://wiki.debian.org

Re: Reviewing http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2008-04-25 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:12:58AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Hi, I'm wondering whether the ArchitectureSpecificsMemo[1] wiki page is (well-)known, and whether its content got reviewed, esp. by porters of each architecture, who could fix obvious errors or typos, or eventually add special

Re: Reviewing http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2008-04-25 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Cyril Brulebois] Hi, I'm wondering whether the ArchitectureSpecificsMemo[1] wiki page is (well-)known, and whether its content got reviewed, esp. by porters of each architecture, who could fix obvious errors or typos, or eventually add special-cases, exceptions, and the like. 1. http

Re: Reviewing http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2008-04-25 Thread Zack Weinberg
I looked at the page: this seems like an appropriate moment to mention something that should be a lot more widely known than it is: sizeof(char) == 1 sizeof(signed char) == 1 sizeof(unsigned char) == 1 Those three equalities are not part of any ABI. They are written into the C