Re: [PATCH] silo: Add 64-bit support

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From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 23:26:20 +0100

> On 11/24/2016 11:05 PM, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
>> I think that's your job to try. If you want to "add 64-bit support"
>> (instead of forcing it to everybody), do the required changes so that
>> it's still works for everybody without extra fiddling.
> 
> Don't be so rude, I'm not forcing anything onto anyone.
> 
>>>> Also you broke the tilo build...
>>>
>>> Not here. Just tried it again and it builds fine. Can you be more specific?
>> 
>> The same issue as with silo.
> 
> Don't you think your statements are a bit misleading then? I didn't break anything,
> I changed the default target to 64-bit which is somewhat reasonable in the year
> 2016, isn't it.

Not really.

Many people, including myself, are still using predominantly 32-bit
userspace on sparc64 machines.  It is significantly faster, and for
me speed is really important.

So submitting a patch which breaks a common build environment is
really not acceptable.
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