From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:21:14 +0100 (BST) Received: from webmail.ict.ac.cn ([159.226.39.7]:43974 "EHLO ict.ac.cn") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20023059AbXIYNVM (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:21:12 +0100 Received: (qmail 13500 invoked by uid 507); 25 Sep 2007 21:17:28 +0800 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (fxzhang@222.92.8.142) by ict.ac.cn with SMTP; 25 Sep 2007 21:17:28 +0800 Message-ID: <46F90841.1040903@ict.ac.cn> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:08:17 +0800 From: Fuxin Zhang User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" CC: Fuxin Zhang , debian-mips@lists.debian.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: About openoffice linux/mips porting References: <46F90261.1000003@lemote.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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: 16650 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: fxzhang@ict.ac.cn Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Maciej W. Rozycki 写道: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Fuxin Zhang wrote: > > >> It is available at >> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81482, any comments are >> welcome. >> Have an official openoffice for linux/mips might be a good thing. >> > > 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. > Openoffice wants to be able to interact with plugins written in many languages, instead of writting a module for each possible combination it chooses the so called bridge: every language interact with a common middle language. > It smells like OpenOffice is doing something outrageously wrong here... > > Maciej > > > > >