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Re: 32 or 64 bit compilation on Suns?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jul 20 13:25:40 2001
Message-Id: <200107201725.NAA29481@equal-rites.mit.edu>
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:37:47 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:25:37 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I need to know if I should compile Sun applications as 32 bit or 64
> bit at this point
I think generally it won't matter. If it does matter, 64-bit will
cover more machines, but you might need to build it both ways and use
a hack to pick the right one. Don't do that until you find a real
incompatibility, though; only programs which poke into kernel memory
should care.
> also if I compile as 64 bit on Athena 9.0, will such applications
> run on Athena 8.4 machines?
In general, nothing you compile under 9.0 should be expected to run
under 8.4. It is never a good idea to rely on compatibility in that
direction.
