> And that, Paul, is why it’s not going to fly. > All of the 31 bit code would have to be reimplemented.
> A bunch of other people do all that work and > take on all the risk to what end? Hi Alan. What code needs to be reimplemented? I think it is very unlikely any C code needs to be changed. A C programmer would need to go to a lot of effort to make their code 31-bit specific. It is more likely that it is already AM-anything. The existing 31-bit code merely needs to be run as AM64 and it will likely work fine. > What is the commercial value? What do they > get for their efforts? A decent platform that runs 32 bit binaries with a 4 GiB address space, and 64 bit binaries with a 16 EiB address space, just like all competing platforms provide. BFN. Paul. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
