Re: large files: when ubiquitous?

phil-news-nospam_at_ipal.net
Date: 05/09/04 

Date: 9 May 2004 01:15:33 GMT

On Sat, 08 May 2004 11:07:43 +0200 M?ns Rullg?rd <mru@kth.se> wrote:
| "Dave Carroll" <not@available.net> writes:
|
|> phil-news-nospam@ipal.net wrote:
|>> written programs should, at most, require being re-compiled to just
|>> work
|>> on a new platform (I am distinguishing 32 bit file seeking and 64 bit
|>> file seeking as distinct platforms).
|>>
|> So why are you looking for 32-bit architectures to do 64-bit seeks by
|> default? I believe that Alpha already does 64-bit by default ...
|
| Correct, and many badly written programs break on Alpha. I've fixed
| some and given up on many more.

We need to collect a list of programs or packages that don't cleanly
compile and run on both 32 bit and 64 bit architectures, as well as
32 bit and 64 bit seek offset sizes. 

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