[haiku-development] Re: 64 bit

  • From: Ralf Schülke <ralf.schuelke@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 09:37:07 +0200

Mark A Hayes -> thats true. But i wonder when i says this then are
troll?! or says "listen" to me.



2014-09-10 9:17 GMT+02:00 Mark A Hayes <markarnold@xxxxxxxx>:
> On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Jessica wrote:
>
>> However, our stated goal for the official R1 release is the 32-bit
>> gcc2 hybrid build.
>
> I don't know the history of Haiku, but I'm wondering why such an ugly 
> construction is even a goal.
>
> BeOS R5 binary compatibility? It's pointless. You can always run these very 
> old programs in BeOS in a virtual machine if need be. It works just fine.
>
> Focusing on the one relevant arch for desktop pc's for the first release 
> (x86_64) should make things so much nicer. No more gcc2 vs gcc4 insanity. I 
> guess we're at a point of no return though :(
>
> Cheers
> m.a
>

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