gEDA-dev: DBUS binding to PCB actions

[Dan McMahill]

al davis wrote:
> On Friday 06 October 2006 18:34, Dan McMahill wrote:
> 
>>Sorry, I can't support anything which requires GNU libc.
>>
>>In my mind any thing which requires GNU libc, requires gcc,
>>or in some other way really limits portability is right out.
> 
> 
> I trust that this is not a remark against GNU, but rather a 
> request for true portability, meaning we can't require any 
> particular libc, etc.

You are correct.  I want the code to be portable.

>>I'm 
>>certainly not willing to fall into the "all the world is is a
>>32-bit linux intel architecture box with gcc" trap.
> 
> 
> You would be amazed at how many linux applications don't work on 
> 64 bit linux, including some mainstream ones like 
> openoffice.org.  (It appears to work now, since about mid 
> September.)

Actually since I've been a user of 64-bit systems (alpha) for 6 or so 
years and big endian systems (m68k, sparc) for many more I'm not in the 
least bit suprised.  I've seen so many assumptions of sizeof(int) == 
sizeof(void *) and if(!m68k) then we_are_little_endian and  #ifdef 
__sparc__ /* we're running on SunOs */ that nothing will suprise me in 
terms of non-portable code.


-Dan