Re: 32 vs. 64
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 09:08, Ben Collins wrote:
> 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.
I would suggest gmp as one of the earlier libraries to upload
in a 64 bit version.
Jim
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