Re: diff to tonight's kaffe cvs tree to work on ppc

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:

Will you you replace the kaffe_cleanups.patch I just sent you with the slightly
revised one attached.

After some discussions with Tom Gall (of IBM for Linux and 64bit ppc and Linux),
it would be better to change the unsigned int types I used in the align with
unsigned long.

Which has been a general remark since ages (the first 64-bit Linux port (AXP)
was started in 1995): _never_ put pointers in an int, use long.

To catch more bugs, use SPARC64: it is big endian and 64-bit. Or better, use
64-bit PPC when available, since it also has chars that are unsigned by
default.

So far for the 3 most occurring portability problems with Linux.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds


** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/