[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v2] netbsd: Replace nonstandard __WORDSIZE with a more portable solution

[Kamil Rytarowski]

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On 15.12.2015 12:58, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> On 2015-12-15 14:47, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>> There is no way to check CPU type in a portable way across ABIs. 
>> Checking for sizeof(void*) is reasonable since most platforms
>> will report correct values. One exception is x32, but since it's
>> halfbaked never finished and almost not needed any more - we can
>> ignore it.
> 
> I'm sorry, but where the premise of x32 being halfbaked comes from?
> It seems supported in Linux, at least in Debian and derivatives. I
> can see x32 packages in Kubuntu repos.
> 

I base my statement on the incompatible system call interface (with
standards) between Linux and glibc, at least in in March of this year.

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-03/msg00573.html

This doesn't mean that we aren't able to bootstrap more or less
functional distribution, but it won't protect from misbehavior.

> BTW, here are some ways to detect x32:
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port
> 

Actually NetBSD supports at the moment 70 archs, I'm looking for a
solution to cover them all, not just X86 variants.

I will try to make a new patch without these checks.

Thanks.
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