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It's hard to imagine that until a few months ago it was very difficult to get a decent Arm desktop / laptop. I imagine lots of developers working now to fix out
by klelatti 6y ago
It's hard to imagine that until a few months ago it was very difficult to get a decent Arm desktop / laptop. I imagine lots of developers working now to fix outstanding Arm bugs / issues.
- giantrobot 6y agoWhile I'm sure lots of projects have actual ARM-related bugs, there was a whole class of "we didn't expect this platform/arch combination" compilation bugs that have seen fixes lately. It's not that the code has bugs on ARM, a lot of OSS has been compiling on ARM for a decade (or more) thanks to Raspberry Pis, Chromebooks, and Android but built scripts didn't understand "darwin/arm64". Back in December installing stuff on an M1 Mac via Homebrew was a pain but it's gotten significantly easier over the past few months. But a million (est) new general purpose ARM computers hitting the population certainly affects the prioritizing of ARM issues in a bug tracker.
- macintux 6y agoWhen Itanium was newborn, HP enlisted my employer, Progeny, to help port applications to ia64 Linux. Despite the fact that 64-bit Linux had been running successfully on DEC Alpha systems for years, we ran into no end of difficulty because pointers were truncated all over the place, which apparently hadn't mattered on Alpha systems. It seems like it must have been an Endian issue, but after 20 years my memories are basically toast. I just know nearly every bug we found was pointer truncation.