> 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. Cheers, Steve