James Carlson wrote:
> Charles Wright writes:
> > I'm confused by what you mean when you say
> > "Most Solaris user space applications are not 64 bit clean"
> 
> Many applications we ship are compiled in 32-bit mode because:
> 
>   - They usually don't require any of the expanded address space or
>     special features of 64-bit-ness, so compiling specially provides
>     little or no benefit.

Erm... I disagree in this case. AFAIK bugster has many bugs with issues
related to timestamps, largefile handling, inablity to handle datasets
>= 2GB etc. etc. making such applications 64bit ones would fix this kind of 
>problems.

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Bye,
Roland

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