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Re:C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines by Filligree on Friday November 16, 2018 @06:34AM (#18468050)
However, if your program crashed on SPARC then it probably contains undefined behaviour. And if that's the case, then at any time a new GCC release might make it fail.
Re:C Portability Lessons from Weird Machines by radarsat1 on Friday November 16, 2018 @05:12PM (#18472381)
Indeed. And I'll fix it as soon as that happens ;) But I can't really fix something I can't reproduce. At least, I draw the line there if it requires massive changes. For example, how am I to know that my fixes won't introduce further undetectable problems? That last thing you want as a maintainer is to rely on one single user who reported a problem to help you out with testing and maintaining the fix forever..