On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 01:18:02AM +0400, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> > And if you're trying to do this on the machine you're trying to make
> > supported, you're going to have lots of fun.
>
> so you like python. okay.
Actually, I only know a bit of python. It seems nice but I've been
caught up doing real work (and learning PPC asm at the same time.)
> but imagine the X arch hacker does not like python,
> and nevertheless needs to port it on arch X.
> still fun?
Well I know python is endian-clean. I'd suspect it's even 32/64bit clean.
So it's not a matter of 'port' but compile. And Linus has done things which
have made lots of kernel hackers scratch their head for a while. (Jump
out of this fire and into the min/max macros in 2.4.9 fire to see
what I mean).
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