"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com> writes: > on ia64 a pointer is a long, not an int. So old code that assumed > sizeof(int) == sizeof(int *) will fail in hard to find ways. Must of that should have been shaken out in the Alpha port, though. Trust me, I bludgeoned dpkg and dselect extensively in the early days. Mike.