The following reply was made to PR pkg/35955; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/35955: sysutils/extipl doesn't work on amd64
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 18:29:42 +0100

 On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 05:55:00AM +0000, fuyuki@hadaly.org wrote:
 > >Description:
 > sysutils/extipl doesn't work on amd64 since it assumes 32bit arch.
 
 I'd avoid the char -> int8, short ->int16 to keep the local changes
 smaller. They are fixed on any sane architecture. Can I ask to reduce
 the patch by that? The rest looks good, but I can't test it on 64bit
 right now.
 
 Joerg