On Friday June 26 2020 16:35:31 JF Mezei wrote: >Since ARM and Intel share little-endian and 64 bits, the code should >compile cleanly.
For the 64-bit aspect yes (though I expect that the X server will compile cleanly on 32 bit systems as well). Endianness typically does not cause issues at compile time, it's (almost?) purely a runtime aspect. Note that ARM is bi-endian; apparently it does default to little-endian, but we all know that Apple's PPC machines (also ARM architecture!) were through and through big-endian (so much so that I had simply written them off as big-endian, period). With good reason AFAIC; it makes reasoning about (and implementing) just about any operation at the bit level (pixels...) such much easier. Well, to me at least ... > unix applications will be supported Did he give a definition of what those are? I'm guessing that the OS is going to remain a certified Unix, which would make any supported app a Unix application ;) R _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. X11-users mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/x11-users/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
