Re: x86 merge - a little feedback

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Wed Sep 12 2007 - 14:14:27 EST



On Sep 11 2007 14:51, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>> Will that cause people to compile test both? I have my doubts that
>> will really work.
>
>If people don't compile-test both now, then why would they compile-test
>things when merged?
>
>So no, that's not the point.
>
>But at least things like "grep" will work sanely, and people will be
>*aware* that "Oh, this touches a file that may be used by the other
>word-size".

Speaking of which, how does sparc/sparc64 handle things?




Jan
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