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Re: cause for armel nss (i.e., firefox) build segfault



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On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 03:45:01AM +0100, Wookey wrote:

> > Looks sane?
> > 
> > It's of course a stupid idea to depend on a particular layout of the
> > jmp_buf structure in application programs, but oh well.  People write
> > ugly buggy code, film at 11.
> 
> Especially mozilla people. They had code that depended on the float
> format too IIRC. 

There's more packages that assume big-endian (FPA) word order
#ifdef __arm__ than you'd want to know.

Even better are the packages that pretend to do a autoconf check
for something, and then hardcode the result to what they think might
be right without looking at the result of the autoconf test at all.



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