Re: ISOLATED, can't grok: 21.2 Showstopper? BAD DATA LOSS on disk full

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 23:14:23 +0900, Martin Buchholz said: Yes, the problem is when you codify that and then try to port some time later to a system that doesn't behave that way. How many of the bugs we've seen porting XEmacs to 64-bit chipsets have been caused by underlying "everybody knows..." assumptions caused by "all real systems are 32 bit, the toy ones are 16 bit"? As soon as the KL-20 CPU died off and it seemed that "8 bits comprise a byte" was a safe assumption, we started seeing code that used 16-bit w_char's ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech