Re: Is 21.x going to be 64-bit clean?
On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 05:40:22PM -0800, Martin Buchholz wrote:
>>>>> "Olivier" == Olivier Galibert
<galibert(a)pobox.com> writes:
Olivier> Dynodump, being sun specific, has afaik never been tested on a 64bits
Olivier> architecture. The problem probably lies there. I don't think anybody
Olivier> here has the required hardware to fix it, so all I can say is good
Olivier> luck. But you can trust the common code for 64bits cleanliness.
There's this code in src/s/sol2.h, which tries to ensure that
dynodump is only used for SunOS 5.5 and earlier.
:-)
Anyway, what I meant was "the most probable cause for crashes is the
undumper and not the common code".
Georg Nikodym <georgn(a)Canada.Sun.COM> is the authority on
getting
dumping to work on Suns, and has a successful build of XEmacs on
Solaris Bleeding-Edge Operating Environment.
Nice.
OG.