From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Raeburn Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: i guess we're frozen & stuff Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:50:44 -0400 Message-ID: <62118110-6E77-4DED-9524-6F048B80D32D@raeburn.org> References: <0489FB6F-567B-4967-9703-1A3D89462A37@raeburn.org> <932344FB-7C5C-4A3F-B4CE-932F83EEF563@raeburn.org> <87eirixt01.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250005879 16358 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2009 15:51:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ludovic_Court=E8s?= Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 11 17:51:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Matd1-0001pI-KV for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:51:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46348 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Matcz-0002cV-Eh for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:51:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Matcv-0002bc-Ds for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Matcq-0002ab-Qt for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:51:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43238 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Matcq-0002aW-Mj for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:51:00 -0400 Original-Received: from splat.raeburn.org ([69.25.196.39]:42954 helo=raeburn.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Matcd-0004Wj-2t; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:50:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [10.0.0.172] (squish.raeburn.org [10.0.0.172]) by raeburn.org (8.14.3/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n7BFoi1a027331; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:50:44 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87eirixt01.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:9063 Archived-At: On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:36, Ludovic Court=E8s 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 =20= > in > `.go' headers. That's fine... but shouldn't we maybe use different directories, then, =20= so runs on different platforms don't collide? Ken=