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Re: Endianess
- To: mrs at wrs dot com (Mike Stump)
- Subject: Re: Endianess
- From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand at inf dot utfsm dot cl>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:48:08 -0400
- cc: mikeg at watson dot ibm dot com, toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl, egcs at cygnus dot com, ian at cygnus dot com, zhumin at public1 dot ptt dot js dot cn
mrs@wrs.com (Mike Stump) said:
> Michael Gschwind <mikeg@watson.ibm.com> said:
> > This really sounds like a FAQ item to me, to clear this up once and
> > for all...
> No! This is a FAQ, this is true, but it isn't a egcs FAQ. It is a
> how do I program in C FAQ. We don't maintain that FAQ. The reason
> why we cannot list (chouls not list) this in our FAQ, is then we must
> have all answers to all programming FAQs, including how to program in
> C, C++, Fortran, Ada, Objective-C, you get the point. The we must
> replicate all those preexisting FAQs into our, and replicate the work,
> and do a poor job of it, because we are as interested in maintaining
> it and so on...
How about adding pointers to the official FAQs then?
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