James Carlson wrote: > Joseph Kowalski writes: > > John Plocher wrote: > > > Joseph Kowalski wrote: > > >> Sorry, I want a fast-track. > > > > > > What are the architectural (as opposed to C-Team, Design or RE) issues? > > >> > > >> 1) I believe this is an incomplete project. > > > > > > This sounds to me like "go boil the ocean" scope creep. > > > > Sometimes the burners need to be turned on. > > A less dramatic (but just as effective) answer would be to work out > the details of a new Big Rule: "as only 64-bit kernels are supported, > all new utilities should be compiled as 64-bit objects on SPARC; > existing utilities should be transitioned when practical."
Technicially this was the original long-term goal for SPARC and the well-known Solaris port to stuff in a build flag in usr/src/Makefile.sfw which says "kernel is always 64bit so build tools with this flag 64bit only". ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
