On Sun, 12 May 2013, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
We're going to have to support a 32-bit userland for some time to come, unfortunately, but we should no longer make that the default, and we should deliver all of our system utilities in 64-bit only form, IMO; and we could entirely kill off the 32-bit kernel.
If 32-bit userland is no longer the default, then GCC should start producing 64-bit code by default. Currently GCC does not seem to support being compiled to produce 64-bit code by default (at least last I tried doing that). GNU libtool needs a small patch to compile 64-bit C++ code with working exceptions support.
Probably quite a lot of Solaris-targeted user-space code has issues when compiled for 64-bit because it was not compiled that way before.
The GCC that comes with 64-bit Linux systems produces 64-bit code by default, but is capable of compiling 32-bit code.
The OpenIndiana/Illumos folks would need to work with the GCC folks to make sure that a GCC can be built which produces 64-bit by default.
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