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Re: restricted sourceless ARM uploads



On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 06:50:12PM +0100, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006, Bill Gatliff wrote:
> 
> > For the faster arches, i.e. the ARM9 machines and above, I'm thinking 
> > that we should stick with real hardware so there's no question that the 
> > binaries will run properly.
> 
>    Pardon me sir, but can that claim that binaries built on so-called
> "real hardware" will unquestionably run (as opposed to, if I understand
> correcly, binaries built on an emulated platform) be backed up by any
> facts, examples, experimentation results or scientific publication?

Binaries built on real hardware are built on a machine that uses the
binaries built on same real hardware. I.e., if it works, at least you're
sure it doesn't work because the compiler and the emulator are
bug-compatible.

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