[CVALE] Running x86 programs on a 64 bit processor...

[Landon Blake]

I wondered what Pete was talking about when he mentioned "LP64". Here is
an article that talks about it:

http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html

Landon

-----Original Message-----
From: cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com
[mailto:cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com] On Behalf Of Pete Zaitcev
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2007 8:36 PM
To: cvale at cvale.org
Cc: Matt R Hall
Subject: Re: [CVALE] Running x86 programs on a 64 bit processor...

On Sat, 12 May 2007 20:04:38 -0700, "Matt R Hall"
<mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:

> (BTW Pete please chime in if I didn't get this part right, but this is
> the view I've gotten from my time as a Solaris developer at a Fortune
500).

I think you're right. I was busy moving to America and later stuck
in Sun Storage when that Project Wyoming was executed, but I saw some
of it from the sidelines. The most impressive part for me was that
initially someone at SunSoft made a wrong choice by using ILP64 model,
and later they recognized the mistake and changed it to LP64. There
may perhaps be a lesson in it.

-- Pete

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