Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Cranmer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeSBEYWx2aWs/?= Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 20:16:10 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 00:16:10 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bAymlyY9SkaJNa8Tz2rerw"; logging-data="13004"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19r0K00lhpUNWvPbyV/9pCKLOZcoXwpuYM=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16pre) Gecko/20110305 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10pre In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:21UdWVLhO4v3aJvnm0JIjwJrr48= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4775 On 05/30/2011 07:50 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message, Joshua Cranmer wrote: > >> Heck, even porting 32-bit code to a 64-bit target of an otherwise >> identical system is often nontrivial for any decently sized project. > > “Decently sized” like the Linux kernel? Which is portable across something > like two dozen different architectures, both 32-bit and 64-bit? I would call the porting work of Linux nontrivial. After all, supporting a new architecture (to my knowledge) requires cloning a directory and probably several changes to that directory. Remember that I said "nontrivial", not "impossible". -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth