Will there be a 5.3.1?

[Brett Glass]

It's the C language. While it's claimed to be "portable," it really doesn't
address integer size and endianism well enough.

Oddly enough, even FORTRAN did a better job. You could declare a variable
to be INTEGER*4 and that would be that, regardless of architecture.

Which ports were causing you headaches?

--Brett

At 04:17 AM 12/21/2004, Pete French wrote:
  
>> I'd really like to see support for the AMD64 architecture become rock solid,
>> too, because 64 bit Athlons are starting to sell at great prices.
>
>Sadly I went back to running i386 on my AMD64's - not because of problems
>with FreeBSD, but because of problems with ports. It seems that theres a lot
>of code out there assuming sizeof(int) = sizeof(long). Which is a shame (and
>also depresses me after living through identical problems with the  16->32
>switch. You might have thought people would heave learnt)
>
>-pcf.