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?
What is the commercial value? What do they get for their efforts?
Alan
On May 27, 2018, 3:45:32 PM, mu
Hypotheses are interesting, but does anyone have any comparative
performance-related data? It's not too hard for me to imagine that the
compiler writers and maintainers might actually be able to do a better job
with their 64-bit code optimizers if they have less work to do otherwise.
Let me also g
"I read the whole thing and it
doesn’t discuss ELF32 at all, and it says that
pointers are 8 bytes in size."
My bad. I linked you to the z/series ABI. You wanted the s/390 ABI, which
is known as compat mode on z/series.
http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/ELF/zSeries/lzsabi0_s390/book1.html
"My
>> Hi Joe. You didn’t show the ELF32 ABI which
>> is what is being discussed.
> Yes I did. Same document covers 32-bit and 64-bit.
No it doesn’t. I read the whole thing and it
doesn’t discuss ELF32 at all, and it says that
pointers are 8 bytes in size, not sometimes
4, sometimes 8.
>> assuming t
Power path was released for s390x a couple years ago, but since then support
was dropped.
I would push for them to re-up support.
Phil
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> On May 25, 2018, at 4:42 PM, Livio Sousa wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> Any news about PowerPath for Linux on s390x?
> I do have some EMC cust