On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:58:27PM -0400, Michael wrote:
> gcc3 on sparc64 definitely has some oddities, remember the trouble
> around XFree build via xsrc vs. XFree build via src/x11 ?

Yeah - that was odd, but it got fixed (the in-tree compiler now produces
the same, better, code that the tools/* compiler did.

> A LOT of packages are not 64bit-clean. A very popular game is to cast
> pointers to ints, pass int* as long* or size_t*, assume a pointer is 4
> bytes long and so on.

Agreed. It is *very* unlikely that we are talking about a compiler problem
here. Someone who is interested in db4 should just start debugging this.

Martin