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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!swrinde!news.uh.edu!bonkers!web.nmti.com!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 6 Dec 1996 15:56:05 GMT Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI Lines: 21 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <589fml$t1m@web.nmti.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <587jrv$9rf@news.parc.xerox.com> <587meg$h67@web.nmti.com> <5880ig$1a5$1@shade.twinsun.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sonic.nmti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91619 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1704 comp.unix.internals:11484 In article <5880ig$1a5$1@shade.twinsun.com>, Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> wrote: > peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > > The Sun approach requires a #define to indicate you want to use the *new* > > versions of the header files to link with 64-bit libraries. > Is this really true? (Sorry, I haven't been following this debate.) Unless I'm totally confused. I don't rule out the possibility that I *am* totally confused. Incidentally, I have been told in email that Sun originally wanted to do things more like the BSD way but that large software vendors pulled rank and forced this odd design on them. > Surely Sun isn't planning anything as braindamaged as that. I din't think it's *quite* that bad, but it doesn't sound pleasant. -- </peter>