From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Charles Bailey <cbailey32@bloomberg.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Detect endianness on more platforms that don't use BYTE_ORDER
Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 12:34:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7g64asae.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140502165830.GA29339@hashpling.org> (Charles Bailey's message of "Fri, 2 May 2014 17:58:30 +0100")
Charles Bailey <cbailey32@bloomberg.net> writes:
> I claim that any
> platform which provides both but with differing senses is somewhat
> broken so I cannot see the precedence mattering much.
I agree with that, and that is the reason why we shouldn't change
the order all of a sudden. If it shouldn't matter, then there is
only downside of a possiblity to break such an insane set-up that
has been happily working by accident, without helping anybody if we
change it, no?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-02 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-01 7:43 [PATCH] Add extra logic required to detect endianness on Solaris Charles Bailey
2014-05-01 18:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-01 19:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-01 19:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-02 7:49 ` Charles Bailey
2014-05-02 7:55 ` [PATCH] Detect endianness on more platforms that don't use BYTE_ORDER Charles Bailey
2014-05-02 16:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-02 16:58 ` Charles Bailey
2014-05-02 19:34 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-05-02 19:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-05-02 20:02 ` Charles Bailey
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