simh help?

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu May 29 08:19:00 2003

--- Brian Hechinger <wonko_at_4amlunch.net> wrote:
> it has really opened my eyes to the fact that your average opensource
> coder has been so coddled by the whole gcc/x86 platform that they have
> really started to make stupid mistakes and even stupider assumptions
> about things.

They used to say the same thing about BSD/VAX coders...

> the most common assumption is that a void pointer and an int pointer is
> the same size. which just happens to be true in 32-bit land...

The charge in 1983 was "char * and an int are the same size..."

> ... but totally hoses those of us who live in 64-bit land.

The hosed parties 20 years ago tended to be 16-bit users/admins.

> hell, even the code that autoconf generates for tests makes that
> assumption.

I realize that Linux on x86 is a hugely popular platform for Open Source
work, but there's plenty of UltraSPARC machines out there... surely
you don't need an Alpha to shatter these assumptions
 
-ethan
(whose Alpha is running VMS, not UNIX; because it can)
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