Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:59:14 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will there be a 5.3.1? Message-ID: <20041221185914.GL79646@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <E1Cgi14-000Bav-2Q@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <6.2.0.14.2.20041219181710.062cde10@localhost> <E1Cgi14-000Bav-2Q@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Tue, 2004-Dec-21 11:17:22 +0000, Pete French wrote: >> I'd really like to see support for the AMD64 architecture become rock solid, >> too, because 64 bit Athlons are starting to sell at great prices. > >Sadly I went back to running i386 on my AMD64's - not because of problems >with FreeBSD, but because of problems with ports. It seems that theres a lot >of code out there assuming sizeof(int) = sizeof(long). Which is a shame (and >also depresses me after living through identical problems with the 16->32 >switch. You might have thought people would heave learnt) One of the benefits of the AMD64 is supposed to the its ability to run a mix of 32-bit and 64-bit applications. I recall this being a major problem when I first started working on DEC Alpha's about 6 years ago but haven't noticed it as much recently. (Though one project I'm working on started life on PDP-11's and whilst it's been ported to ILP32, does not like I32LP64). One problem is that Unix first became popular (outside academia) with the advent of the 32-bit workstations and then took off with the rise of Linux on 32-bit i386. Lots of Unix code has never seen an environment were sizeof(int) == sizeof(long) == sizeof(void *) isn't true. Hopefully things will improve in the future. -- Peter Jeremy
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