From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:36:09 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:28344 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20023086AbXIYNgH (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:36:07 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l8PDa4v6013600; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:36:05 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l8PDa3Qr013590; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:36:03 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:36:03 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Fuxin Zhang , debian-mips@lists.debian.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: About openoffice linux/mips porting Message-ID: <20070925133603.GA1749@linux-mips.org> References: <46F90261.1000003@lemote.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 16651 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:10:31PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Hmm, why would anyone need to have asm snippets in a document processing > suite? And it looks like the bits are ABI-dependent, so at least three > variations (if the changes are endianness-safe) would be required to > handle all the ABIs that we support. > > It smells like OpenOffice is doing something outrageously wrong here... Normal madness of a (too!) complex piece of software. Ralf