Re: gEDA-user: Installing gEDA from 20050820 Suite CD on Fedora

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 22, 2005, at 8:32 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > no, this is good news.  I've had to fix so much broken software on my
> > alpha becuase of sloppy typecasting it isn't even funny.
>
> I've run into similar headaches with my amd64 machine.  If you forget
> to prototype a function that returns a pointer, you crash.
> sizeof(int) is not the same as sizeof(long) or sizeof(void*).  Etc.

  This definitely IS good news.  Now perhaps people will start paying 
attention to the code they write.  I've been using exclusively 64-bit 
systems for the better part of the last decade...I can't count the 
number of times I've had to clean up messes from the "all the world's 
an x86 running Linux" crowd.

  Fortunately for me, in recent years my focus has moved in the 
direction of using software more like the gEDA suite, which usually 
seem to be written and maintained by more experienced folk who tend not 
to make such messes. :)  When I was in the ISP business, having to get 
more "general" packages built on platforms like Alphas and UltraSPARCs 
was like pulling teeth due to the "if it works, it's correct" mentality 
that pre-4.0 GCC has unfortunately fostered.  I am VERY pleased to hear 
that it's becoming more strict.

          -Dave

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