From: Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: libf2c/configure.in change
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 14:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rzqn2frw6m5.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9802160645.AA24803@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
>>>>> "Toon" == Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> writes:
Toon> The problem with this change is that it is makes a compatibility
Toon> break on systems where sizeof(long) != sizeof(int), e.g. Alpha's.
Toon> With this change, people won't be able to read the sequential
Toon> unformatted files they created with previous versions of the
Toon> compiler.
Bother. I didn't look closely enough originally, and dmg's remark
suggested the opposite...
Toon> OTOH, with this change, they could freely exchange such
Toon> files with Digital Fortran on Digital UNIX.
Toon> I have no strong feeling either way, but if we're going to break
Toon> backwards compatibility, we should write that down in the release
Toon> notes.
I think it shouldn't go in. Pity I didn't spot that definition and
its import in the beginning. Breaking intra-platform compatibility
can wait until we do inter-platform portability of unformatted
files...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-02-16 14:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-02-15 11:33 Dave Love
1998-02-15 20:19 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-02-15 22:54 ` Toon Moene
1998-02-16 14:21 ` Dave Love [this message]
1998-02-17 23:59 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-02-18 14:54 ` Craig Burley
1998-02-18 17:12 ` Jeffrey A Law
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