16 Mar
2017
16 Mar
'17
3:08 p.m.
On 03/16/2017 02:54 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 5:42 PM, Cameron Kaiser via
cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I'm one of the folks that works on LCDproc. Part of the release
testing I do is to compile it on things that aren't just "yet
another Linux box". Of all the use-cases, I'm pretty sure that it's
going to work on Debian-flavored things and if that ever breaks, it's
going to be the one thing that gets fixed first.
Sadly (or happily--take your choice), architectures aren't nearly as
diverse as they used to be. Ones complement, decimal, six-bit characters...
And people who weren't there can't understand why FORTRAN was the
closest thing to a "portable" language...
--Chuck
Porting
to diverse architectures is still a great way to find
latent bugs.
Too bad people can't be arsed to port merely to diverse *operating
systems*, let alone architectures.