Re: How handle Architecture when package is restricted/limited to only some archs?
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> I got recently now also an answer from upstram author on this
> restricted support on only little endian architectures. It is:
>
> > yes, PowerPC port is currently broken. FreePascal has very bad support for
> > different endianity, mostly from the memory management point of view. I had
> > partial success some time ago on an old iBook G3 though, no plugins.
> >
> > FreePascal internally allocates memory from heap (most probably), but from
> > different memory area than malloc does. It also adds few bytes control
> > information and returns pointer with offset of few bytes, which obviously
> > cannot be used with standard libc allocator calls. I had no luck with FPC
> > cmem unit either which basically uses malloc, things went even worse.
That could very well be the case, but then there should be bugs filed
against free pascal (src:fpc) to fix these problems, and presumably
tuxcmd should do some rudimentary tests to see if it actually built a
working binary in the first place.
Finally, while having a buggy package on some architectures is
annoying, it's not really an excuse not to build it on those
architectures, *especially* when the bug isn't even in the package.
Architecture specific compiler bugs happen, and they should be fixed.
Don Armstrong
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