PATCH: Fix __WORDSIZE for ia64.

H. J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Fri Aug 1 14:29:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:13:33AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > With this change, the only loss is we can no longer access the old utmp
> > file. I think it is the price we should pay to fix the problem. 
> 
> I am inclined to agree with this conclusion (the same one made on other
> 64/32 platforms).  But it's not a change you just slip in without comment,
> discussion with users and system maintainers, and approval from the
> architecture's canonical maintainer.

Let's get some agreement here first.


H.J.



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