On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:15:32PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote: > Henning Makholm wrote: > > > Another related bug type that I found lurking in my packages when I > > investigated the warnings in this list, is trying to format a size_t > > value with a %u or %d format string, which will break if size_t is 64 > > bits (unless the actual number is small and it is the last argument > > and the endianness of the architecture happens to match its stack > > growth direction). > > Since any sane ABI pads arguments to word size, this is only a problem > on big endian 64-bit architectures (that is, no current release > architecture). >
odd.. there appears to currently be a sparc release of debian, http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/ and it appears to claim to support some kind of limited 64bit support. There are some unstated things from the page that I would like to bring to the table as relevant: 1. since it is sparc, I would presume debian/sparc is "big endian" 2. since the amd64 arch now has 64bit applications (?) I would guess that at some point, the debian sparc folks may follow suit. So to deliberately ignore an issue, becuase "we dont support big-endian 64bit *right now*", would seem to be rather short sighted to me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
