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"Jeff Hill" <[email protected]> · Wed, 2 Nov 2005 14:40:23 -0700

> I feel really uncomfortable allowing long to be 64 bits without
> carefully checking the code in base.
> 
> Why do you want this?
> Is there really a valid reason or is the reason "It would be nice"

I'm don't fully understand what is being discussed here given people have
been running base on 64 bits hosts with previous releases. Is this about
whether the CONFIG files for 64 bit hosts should be in the release or not? 

IMHO, we *should* include the CONFIG files for 64 bit hosts so that
assistance with the 64 bit port is available from a wider group, but also
include a comment in the release notes indicating that base has not been
thoroughly tested on 64 bit architectures and therefore it just might be
unsuitable for production code.

Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marty Kraimer [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 1:00 PM
> To: Ernest L. Williams Jr.
> Cc: Eric Norum; Andrew Johnson; Janet Anderson; Jeff Hill
> Subject: Re: R3.14.8 testing
> 
> Earnest,
> 
> I feel really uncomfortable allowing long to be 64 bits without
> carefully checking the code in base.
> 
> Why do you want this?
> Is there really a valid reason or is the reason "It would be nice"
> 
> Marty

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