Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Steve Langasek] >> The four most common porting problems for software are endianness >> (differs between i386/amd64 and powerpc), word size (differs between >> i386/powerpc and amd64), char signedness (differs between i386/amd64 >> and powerpc), and use of non-PIC code in shared libs (which is a >> problem on *all* non-i386 platforms). > > I'd add unaligned data access (broken or at least problematic on most > non-i386). Again, though, it's not something s390 or mipsel have > special problems with. > Seconded; I recently ran into this (#291471). I think the great number of architectures is a real plus for Debian and does good work uncovering portability bugs; buildd outages are annoying, but no reason to consider dropping an archictecture (unless, of course, the buildd is not able to keep up at all).
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