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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!news.nic.surfnet.nl!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Supersedes: <cancel.casper.32a29abf@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Date: 2 Dec 1996 10:00:48 +0100 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands Lines: 33 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <casper.32a29abf@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <casper.329c06bc@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57ik5l$12i$1@shade.twinsun.com> <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <57shh0$o3u@web.nmti.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91067 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1643 comp.unix.internals:11394 comp.unix.osf.osf1:16789 peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <x7917mx5gx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com>, >Marco S Hyman <marc@dumbcat.codewright.com> wrote: >> Stage 2 (not to be started until the world's C software has been fixed >> regarding pointers and longs): >DEC has already taken the hit for this. Anything that has been ported to >the Alpha has already adjusted to 64 bit longs. >I sure hope Sun keeps screwing up like this, it'll mean more broken >transitions in the future when they finally catch on, and frankly I'd >love to see more folks running Digital UNIX instead of Solaris... it's >a much more pleasant environment to work in. What do you mean, screwing up like this? We are well aware that the 64 bits issues in major apps that require 64 bits have long been fixed because of 64 bit Unixes out there. There's not going to be a gradual 32 -> 64 bit OS transition, apart from the large files bits (which is invisble anyway in source code) Marco's suggestion of gradual moving toward 64 bits is flawed because you get to transition twice and in a more painful and messy way. Casper -- Casper Dik - Sun Microsystems - via my guest account at the University of Amsterdam. My work e-mail address is: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.