Re: linux-axp

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Nance writes:
> I have not tried under Linux/Alpha yet, but I have tried under Digital Unix.
> The code does some bad things with pointers and I have not checked to see
> how difficult its going to be to fix.  The Digital compiler has a flag called
> -taso which you can call if your code needs to assume pointers and ints are
> the same size.  Basically it causes everything to be linked into the lower
> 31 bits of the address space so that all pointers can fit into integers.
> The Digital Unix build uses this flag.  Linux does not have a flag like this,
> so getting mozilla to run on 64 bit hardware is going to require some work.

presumably, NetBSD/Alpha would have the same problems. I think that 64 
bit unclean things in the Mozilla code simply have to be eradicated -- 
in the long run, 64 bit architectures like Merced and Alpha and the
latest Sparcs are going to be too important.

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