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.

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

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.

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