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Re: Reviewing http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo



* Cyril Brulebois:

> I'm wondering whether the ArchitectureSpecificsMemo[1] wiki page is
> (well-)known, and whether its content got reviewed, esp. by porters of
> each architecture, who could fix obvious errors or typos, or eventually
> add special-cases, exceptions, and the like.

I hope the table can be simplified, along the categories LP32/LP64,
endianness, char signedness.  sizeof(long double) needs to be listed
separately, along with it's range/precision.

Hopefully, we will never end up with an architecture where sizeof(long)
!= sizeof(void *) or sizeof(int) != 4.


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