On 26 Nov 2004, at 11:32, Steve Smith wrote: >> Probably (although it did used to work on 64 bit Solaris/SPARC, so >> I'm a little surprised you're finding so many problems - I guess the >> Linux 64 bit ABI is somehow different to the Solaris one). > > My understanding is that on the sparc architecture programs compiled > to 64-bit are slower than 32-bit, so Solaris (and also Linux Sparc > distros) by default compile to 32-bit and only 64-bit on demand.
Okay, that would explain why we didn't hit these issues before. If you have further patches I'm happy to integrate them into the UCL CVS: it'd be great if we could collect all these fixes into a single place, rather than having them fragment across the various RAT source trees people are maintaining. Cheers, Colin
