Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: egcs-1.1.2 ping bug also causes miscompilation of pcbit isdn drive | Date | Thu, 17 Jun 1999 08:19:37 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"Khimenko Victor" <khim@sch57.msk.ru> said:
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> And here we have MAJOR problem: there are NO easy replacements for some > such things used in linux kernel. Yes, it's not portable but what's can be > done ? EVEN if kernel is broken just stating that "such code is not portable > and so it's not our problem" is NOT ENOUGH. Some workaround is needed. And > workaround without speed loss and supported on all supported platforms !
Sorry, I can't agree here. If you are fooling around with operating systems (those things usually depend intimately on the hardware they run on), a certain amount of pain caused by non-portability at the source level has to be taken into account. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand mailto:vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513
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