McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages
McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages
Posted Apr 2, 2013 20:22 UTC (Tue) by justincormack (subscriber, #70439)In reply to: McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages by Aliasundercover
Parent article: McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages
A lot of this code, judging from the report, is not working. Open source code is expected to work on new architectures and with new C compilers but clearly a lot of this code does not. Upstream does not "do a port" because Debian is or Fedora is doing a port. And if a new version of gcc breaks your code because it assumed old behaviour that "ain't broke" then it is broke. Binary versions might work, but source is what matters here.
Posted Apr 2, 2013 22:55 UTC (Tue)
by robert_s (subscriber, #42402)
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McIntyre: Scanning for assembly code in Free Software packages
I wonder if this is the right place to bring up the last notable case of a distribution package maintainer (no less) "fixing" things that they didn't 100.0% understand in a package. After going for a semi-automated trawl.