Jes Sorensen wrote: >>>>>>"David" == David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> writes: >>>>>> > >David> I think one point that hasn't been made so far is that we >David> actively discourage supporting an ILP32 data model for IA-64 >David> Linux to avoid splitting ia64 linux into two different worlds >David> (32-bit and 64-bit world). If we supported ILP32, it's very >David> likely that some ISVs will decide to provide *only* 32-bit >David> libraries, which could in turn force other ISVs to stay with >David> 32-bit just because they couldn't get the pre-requisite 64-bit >David> libraries. My understanding is that IRIX suffered from this >David> effect. > >Very good point, and even if we went down that road one could argue we >should only go for IP32 with long's being 64 bit. > I see the drawback... :-D But maybe Linux provides enough open-source alternatives to existing ISV libraries to limit the number of ISV's impacted by this kind of forced limitation...? BTW, do you know what is the choice on Linux/ppc64 vs. the previous Linux/ppc implementation on the same topic(data-model sizes)? >Just say no ;) > FiX -- Francois-Xavier "FiX" KOWALSKI /_ __ Tel:+33 (0)4 76 14 63 27 Telecom Infrastructure Division / //_/ Telnet: 779-6327 SigTech eXpert / http://www.hp.com/go/opencall i n v e n tReceived on Wed Jan 23 03:27:46 2002
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