David Korn wrote:
> 2. Assuming that a 64-bit address space is desired and that
> measurement shows little performance degradation, why
> wouldn't this be /bin/sh rather than having both the 32 and
> 64 bit version?
Current versions of Solaris support only 64-bit processors on SPARC,
so it could be 64-bit only there, but on x86, both 32-bit and 64-bit
processors are supported, so hardcoding it to 64-bit would leave the
shell un-runnable on 32-bit-only x86 processors.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
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