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Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch



On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 02:39:26PM -0700, Philip Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:15:32PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > Henning Makholm wrote:
> > 
> > > Another related bug type that I found lurking in my packages when I
> > > investigated the warnings in this list, is trying to format a size_t
> > > value with a %u or %d format string
> > 
> > Since any sane ABI pads arguments to word size, this is only a problem
> > on big endian 64-bit architectures (that is, no current release
> > architecture).
> 
> So to deliberately ignore an issue, becuase 
> "we dont support big-endian 64bit *right now*", would seem to be rather
> short sighted to me.

I didn't suggest to ignore the issue. I'm just providing information
to help people to prioritize.

-- 
	Falk



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