On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 06:33:53PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > Right. You don't recompile and get a magic bullet speed improvement > > (well, you do, but not a drastic one I think); but you don't recompile > > and get a magic bullet binary incompatibility either. Then you add > > 64-bit pieces by hand as necessary. > > Huh? I can somewhat understand the "rebuild and forget" approach, > especially in cases suitably experienced stuff was lost meanwhile. But if > you start to fiddle with some old crap, you may equally well run > 's/long/int/' within it, what's a deal. Eh? That's not even sort-of practical on an application of significant size. It would be a nightmare. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
