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to: William McBrine
from: Bob Jones
date: 2003-08-16 08:36:16
subject: Re: QWK problem(s)

BS> I guess it does the same to pack the index structure!

 WM> Not really -- my way is portable; "__attribute__
((packed))" is gcc-
 WM> specific. My way also eliminates little-endian dependencies, and is
 WM> compatible with 64-bit systems with 8-byte longs. I realize that the rest
 WM> of Maximus isn't clean that way yet, but one has to start somewhere. ;-)

William:

Would you care to join the development team working on getting Maximus ported?  

If so, what platforms beside a Linux based, Intel based (little endian, 32
bit) CPU platform can you help us out with?  And what compilers / make
systems would you want to be using?

Thanks.

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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