>>  additional question: are sizeof(long) different on sparc32 and sparc64?
   >>  if so, routing socket alignment (ROUNDUP in sys/net/rtsock.c will
   >>  have the similar problem.
   >sizeof(long) is different between 32bit SPARC and 64bit SPARC.  note that
   >ultrasparc hardware is capable of running both and (we eventually hope that
   >a :-) NetBSD/sparc64 64bit kernel can/will run both.  the same problem will
   >apply to 64bit mips ports that want to run 32bit applications.
   
   	hmm... so, if we run sparc32 /sbin/route on sparc64 kernel,
   	/sbin/route will choke due to hardcoded sizeof(long) alignment.


well, it *should*.  note that it goes through an emulation layer
and we're gonna need to special case a Lot of ioctl's here for this
to work sanely (or, push part of this support out of compat/netbsd32).
this emulation layer isn't quite finished yet though eduardo has done
a large amount of work to make it so, at least for sparc64 (where it
is essential!)


the idea is:  there is no reason we can not run 32bit binaries on a
64bit kernel.  it is simply a matter of programming.  :-)