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Rare architectures

Posted May 24, 2009 10:06 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: That's silly. You can have strlcat() and strlcpy(), yet be compatible by liljencrantz
Parent article: EGLIBC: Not a fork, but a glibc distribution

I'm sorry, but ARM is not a "rare" architecture. It is #4 for Debian, and would rate #3 if arm and armel were counted together.


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Rare architectures

Posted May 24, 2009 11:45 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

More generally, there are more ARMs made than any other processor by a
considerable margin. It's only 'rare' if you ignore the embedded space
completely.

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