[Fontconfig] fc-arch things "sparc" has the "ppc" signature

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Sun May 27 15:01:39 PDT 2007


On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 01:56 -0500, Albert Chin wrote:

> So, is fc-arch checking too little to discern one architecture from
> another?

Fontconfig checks to make sure the on-disk structures will be
compatible, which involves testing the size, alignment and byte-ordering
of several different datatypes. So, common byteorder and datatype size
will often generate common signatures.

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keith.packard at intel.com
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