[rescue] Re: Solaris 9 issues

[James Lockwood]

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:01:41PM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
>
> > Josh, what do you feel you need a 64bit compiler for?  If you're not
> > working with either kernel drivers or apps that need more than a 4GB
> > address space you can almost certainly do as well or better compiling in
> > 32bit mode.
>
> I was under the impression that it was more broken than that. I doubt I
> really need more that 4gigs of address space, at least not on my Ultra1.

One of the cooler "mundane" uses of big address space is being able to
carve out big chunks of tmpfs.

-James