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Old timers remember when "compiling open source C code to this other platform" was a real chore. Ever run the old school GNU configure and watched the giant str
by NelsonMinar 5y ago
Old timers remember when "compiling open source C code to this other platform" was a real chore. Ever run the old school GNU configure and watched the giant stream of compatibility tests for weird architectures that go by? It's for a reason, one nearly forgotten in our current amd64 monoculture.
The good news is even if the CPU is weird the C compiler is likely to be clang and the OS is likely to be some Linux/glibc variant. A lot of the old porting challenges had to do with OS and compiler differences.