[OpenIndiana-discuss] When this misery end?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, Hung Nguyen Gia wrote:

> Illumos is not 64 bit ready. This is why the compiler has to target 32 bit by default. All Illumos distros have this limitation.

It has been 64-bit ready since 1995.

At the time (and even now), most apps did not benefit from 64-bit, 
although they consumed more memory and disk space.  It was only when 
AMD introduced its AMD64 architecture that apps not requiring a huge 
data-set might benefit from 64-bit.

Bob
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