Subject: Re: coding standards vs. HP-UX (was Re: [owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com: BOUNCE
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 13:11:26 CDT
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 01:47:33PM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> >Well, I think these patches do need to be reviewed and integrated, so
> >that we can work on HP-UX. But I don't think they do anything like
> >make our code cleaner.
>
> Kevin used G++ IIRC. Boc didn't.
Aah. *Light dawns* One wonders why HP hasn't fired their compiler
team, and just switched to GCC. I hear more bad stories about it
(like header that #define const ) than about all other compilers
combined.
>
> >I'm curious, though. Kevin Vajk did lots of work on HP-UX, even
> >creating makefile rules to create the native packages. So why didn't
> >he run into these problems?
>
> A lot of boc's code (which is quite good, btw, but i need to hand-merge ;-(
> ) involves us working on multi-depth visuals/monitors. For us to do this, we
> need to push the gdk_rgb_visual|colormap before we create a new
> gtk_drawing_area (exactly like a gnome-canvas)
There are some IRIX bugs about this in bugzilla, too. You might want
to check them out.
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