From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 21 19:08:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D83D16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:08:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ticketswitch.com (mail.ticketswitch.com [194.200.93.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B72C143D48 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:08:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from [172.16.1.6] (helo=dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk) by mail.ticketswitch.com with esmtp (Exim 4.32; FreeBSD) id 1CgpNK-0005rp-92; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:08:50 +0000 Received: from petefrench by dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 4.42 (FreeBSD)) id 1CgpNK-000D1Y-0Z; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:08:50 +0000 To: brett@lariat.org, colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk, petefrench@ticketswitch.com In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20041221114103.053aa0b8@localhost> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:08:50 +0000 cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will there be a 5.3.1? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:08:52 -0000 > 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.