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Re: For what it's worth
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Re: For what it's worth


  • Subject: Re: For what it's worth
  • From: Charlie Dickman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:51:30 -0500

Well EXCUUUSE me!

This kind of feedback you can keep to yourself. I'm a professional programmer and have been for 39 years so don't presume to tell me how to learn or how to program. I have forgotten more than you know and how do you know that I haven't read the documentation?

I'm copying this to the list so they'll know who they're dealing with with you.

On Jan 26, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:

[offlist]

On Jan 26, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Charlie Dickman wrote:

I appreciate everyone's replies. New architecture requires new learning and I'm learning.

It occurred to me that the order of evaluation of arguments is not guaranteed; thanks for the reminder.

It was also a head slapper that the G$ and Intel chips are different endians. Again, thanks for the education.

The only thing I can say in defense of my own ignorance is that they worked when coded on the G4.

There really is no defense IMO for being unaware of the single best known issue encountered in the transition to Intel processors. Apple has documentation specifically for people porting PowerPC code to universal binary code, and it's been around since they announced the switch to Intel processors:


http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/universal_binary/index.html

or you can have your own copy for reading on airplanes:

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/universal_binary/universal_binary.pdf

There's an entire section are architecture differences.

At any raye I have fixed my errors.

If you didn't know about endian issues, there's a chance there are other issues about which you are not aware. Learn first, code second. It's really in your best interest because it will save you a lot of time wasted scratching your head, tracking down bugs, and rewriting incorrect code. Unless your code is very, very simple, there could well be places where problems might not show up for a while if you rely on testing to identify problem areas in your code.


Larry

Charlie Dickman email@hidden



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