Re: AMD64 and lib64

["Harald Dunkel" <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>]

My personal oppinion:

32bit SW "introduces" a lot of problems, namely the
assumptions

	sizeof(long)  = sizeof(int)
	sizeof(void *)= sizeof(int)

and maybe some others. The request for a lib64 directory
in parallel to the "original" lib directory containing the
32bit libs expresses just the desire of some folks to get
the good ol' days back when these assumptions were true. Why
do some porting to 64bit when there is still a lib directory
for 32bit?

What would have happened a few years ago when 32bit hardware
was introduced, if OS vendors had introduced a "lib32"
directory in parallel to the existing lib dir for 16bit?
I would guess it would have slowed down the migration.


Regards

Harri