Subject: Re: stdio FILE extension
To: tech-userlevel <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Dave <dgriffi@cs.csubak.edu>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 10/21/2001 23:21:23
On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> > SunOS 5.8 -> 5.9, as I understand it, will be going from ILP32 -> LP64
> > userland.
> 
> Not exactly..
> 
> Solaris 8 userland is dual-ABI; libraries are generally available in
> both ILP32 and LP64 models.  Most userland commands do not need to be
> LP64, so they aren't.

Why does this remind me of the mess that Irix made of things in this area?


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David Griffith
dgriffi@cs.csubak.edu