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Re: 32 vs. 64



On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:10:23AM -0300, Martin Marques wrote:
> With all this 64bits discussion of the last day, I was thinking... the debs 
> that come with Debian SPARC, surelly are compiled with 32 bit support, right?
> Isn't there plans on having more 64 bits support in the linux SPARC 
> distribution.
> I mean, I'm right now compiling, with some problems, PostgreSQL-7.4RC2, and I 
> think it's going out with 64 bit support. Now, on some application, I find 64 
> to be little important, but on my database server it may be crucial to have 
> it (if the arch supports it).

We're building up to more things being available as 64-bit. Right now we
have libc and libncurses, which are the primary. Before long, things
will be selectively getting 64-bit builds aswell.

It's just a matter of time.

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