Then what is the 'correct' way to get it to work? I used the binary downloaded via debian.org for the PPC and it shows this problem. So is it a bug with the way debian builds it's binaries? I can 'make' it work by rebuilding differently, but I didn't think I should have to do that, I prefer to use a distribution binary.
Thanks in advance for your suggestions. On Aug 31, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-31 at 08:27 -0500, Donald Kayser wrote: >> This same code segment works under previous versions on this powerpc >> (2.4 kernel, old xf86 on sarge debian distribution. This is the >> second >> time on my current project that this has bitten me. I am wondering >> when it changed from behaving as if char is signed, which BTW has >> been >> the 'norm' for my programming life, to unsigned char. It seems that >> this is a gcc change of behavior as I would never have had to specify >> 'signed char' previously. > > The Linux/PPC ABI has been like this at least since I started using it > around 1998/9, probably for as long as it exists. > > > -- > Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com > Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI > developer > _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
