"Robert G. (Doc) Savage" <dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I can't imagine what has prompted Adobe to pack up their proverbial bat > & ball and go home, abandoning 64-bit Flash development for all > platforms. I hope there's another explanation, because this is just > beyond dumb. I was reading an article about llvm, the new just-in-time-capable C-compiler and lo and behold they mentioned Adobe Flash as being one of the users of this on the Apple Mac target. It appears LLVM bytecode gets converted to Flash "actioncode", which I assume is interpreted by an interpreter inside the flash executable. Adobe seems to have built this Frankensteinein monster when most people simply want to play videos. Surely we don't need a full-blown bytecode language to play videos??? Giveen that they have been working on a 64-bit version of flash for over 2 years now and having only limited success, I'd wager that their actioncode and/or their interpreter itself is littered with address-size assumptions where they wantonly stuff addresses into ints and expect the process to be reversable. (I've seen this in far too many "clever" programs.) Adobe themselves admits that there are "architectural" issues preventing them from simply recompiling flash for a 64-bit target. -wolfgang -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
