Re: Porting to IBM Risc 6000

[David Edelsohn <dje%watson.ibm.com@localhost>]

>>>>> Matt Thomas writes:

Matt> One advantage of that is not having to do with ELF64 shared libraries
Matt> for PowerPC. :)  At least to start.

        Yes.

Matt> Depends on if there is need for an app to have more than 4G of address
Matt> space.  Granted that will need to be a big machine but eventually that
Matt> will need to happen.

        You will want to be able to run 64-bit PowerPC applications.  I
did not mean that 64-bit user application support should be omitted.  What
I meant is that no 64-bit PowerPC Linux distribution has any standard
applications compiled in 64-bit mode.

        "vi" does not need to be a 64-bit app.  "ping" does not need to be
a 64-bit app.  The only apps that need 64-bits are big databases /
transaction processing apps, large scientific simulations, and Emacs (:-).

David