Re: i guess we're frozen & stuff

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Ken Raeburn <address@hidden> writes:

> It appears that the word size and endianness is also encoded into the
> header.  Is this a good idea, when people can share home directories
> across machines of different architectures, and even run mixed-size
> binaries on a single system (or mixed-architecture, in some cases)?

Currently `.go' files cannot be shared across heterogeneous
architectures, which is why the endianness and word size are encoded in
`.go' headers.

Thanks,
Ludo'.