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An other problem is when GCC drops architecture support -- say some old arch which Linux doesn't run on but which the BSDs do -- then the BSDs are forced to mai
by stevan 17y ago
An other problem is when GCC drops architecture support -- say some old arch which Linux doesn't run on but which the BSDs do -- then the BSDs are forced to maintain multiple old versions of GCC...
- ajross 17y agoWhich architectures are those? And this is a FreeBSD announcement, which has a much more limited port list than NetBSD.
- silentbicycle 17y agoHere are the hardware platforms that OpenBSD runs on (http://openbsd.org/plat.html http://openbsd.org/plat.html). Not as many as NetBSD, but several. Porting a program that was written primarily with (say) i386 Debian Linux in mind to other platforms is a great way to find bugs due to incorrect assumptions. They may be asymptomatic on systems with 32-bit processors, the same endian-ness, etc., but they're just lying dormant. Patches from porting and the OpenBSD security audits are contributed upstream, too.
- bensummers 17y agoOpenBSD != FreeBSD. Very different beasts.