Re: i guess we're frozen & stuff

[Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>]

On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:36, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> It appears that the word size and endianness is also encoded into the
>> header.  Is this a good idea, when people can share home directories
>> across machines of different architectures, and even run mixed-size
>> binaries on a single system (or mixed-architecture, in some cases)?
>
> Currently `.go' files cannot be shared across heterogeneous
> architectures, which is why the endianness and word size are encoded  
> in
> `.go' headers.

That's fine... but shouldn't we maybe use different directories, then,  
so runs on different platforms don't collide?

Ken