Re: Problem with opencbm, xu1541 and xubuntu12.04

From: Justin <shadow_at_darksideresearch.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 20:41:23 -0400
Message-Id: <228F0224-617D-4866-B3A1-1CA4EDBF450C@darksideresearch.com>
We're calling x86 wrong-endian right?

On May 29, 2012, at 15:16 , Groepaz wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 May 2012, you wrote:
>> On 05/29/2012 12:07 AM, Rhialto wrote:
>>> On Mon 28 May 2012 at 23:01:45 +0200, Uffe Jakobsen wrote:
>>> At some point in the future I should try it on NetBSD on the same
>>> machine, that has a tendency to shake out portability issues :-)
>> 
>> Agree - switching platform, architecture and/or compiler is a good way
>> to spot problems with types, sizes etc...
> 
> haha - that reminds me how a handful small tools, which i had in "productive" 
> use for 10+ years, literally exploded on me when i naivly moved my sourcetree 
> to the newly bought powerpc-mac =) having at least one machine with "wrong" 
> endianess at hand is very nice to spot such problems, indeed :) (and if you 
> really are masochistic, you want one that has 16bit bytes/chars too =P)
> 
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> Wann kapierst du endlich, dass copypaste-schwall keine Sau interessiert? 
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