Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-26,: Re: ANSI C clarifications, with citations (was Re: [patch-2.4

# Re: ANSI C clarifications, with citations (was Re: [patch-2.4

Simon Richter (Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de)
Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:51:08 +0200 (CEST)

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On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> I think it is one of Linux's few remaining problems that assumptions are
> not readily spelled out - so one has to study the code in every detail to
> extract the assumptions.

Yes, but these assumptions are one of Linux's remaining problems. Code
which is based on them will not be portable to other arches. But since
noone cares about them anyway, we might as well declare Linux i386 only,
it would at least stop the BSD people laughing because our "stable" kernel
doesn't compile on all "supported" archs.

Simon (running 2.0.36/m68k)

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