[oi-dev] OI project reboot required

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 12 May 2013, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
> We're going to have to support a 32-bit userland for some time to 
> come, unfortunately, but we should no longer make that the default, 
> and we should deliver all of our system utilities in 64-bit only 
> form, IMO; and we could entirely kill off the 32-bit kernel.

If 32-bit userland is no longer the default, then GCC should start 
producing 64-bit code by default.  Currently GCC does not seem to 
support being compiled to produce 64-bit code by default (at least 
last I tried doing that).  GNU libtool needs a small patch to compile 
64-bit C++ code with working exceptions support.

Probably quite a lot of Solaris-targeted user-space code has issues 
when compiled for 64-bit because it was not compiled that way before.

The GCC that comes with 64-bit Linux systems produces 64-bit code by 
default, but is capable of compiling 32-bit code.

The OpenIndiana/Illumos folks would need to work with the GCC folks to 
make sure that a GCC can be built which produces 64-bit by default.

Bob
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