From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: i guess we're frozen & stuff Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:36:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87eirixt01.fsf@gnu.org> References: <0489FB6F-567B-4967-9703-1A3D89462A37@raeburn.org> <932344FB-7C5C-4A3F-B4CE-932F83EEF563@raeburn.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250005411 11483 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2009 15:43:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:43:31 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 11 17:43:24 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 1MatVC-00062l-KC for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:43:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45684 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MatV9-00009x-Tr for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:43:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MatSa-00086L-JH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MatST-00084N-4V for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:40:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44848 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MatST-00084J-1b for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:40:17 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60771 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MatSR-000194-IX for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MatSF-0005Tm-6f for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:40:03 +0000 Original-Received: from laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr ([147.210.128.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:40:03 +0000 Original-Received: from ludo by laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:40:03 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: laptop-147-210-128-170.labri.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 24 Thermidor an 217 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volutio?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?n?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ecaR5Mho3ZSOUUmdIg6yP0V3iOI= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:9062 Archived-At: Hi, Ken Raeburn writes: > 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. Thanks, Ludo'.