Switch SPARC GNU coreutils+bash from 32 to 64bit[PSARC/2008/351SelfReview]

[Darren J Moffat]

Roland Mainz wrote:
> The trouble is that this increases the workload of a simple "make
> OS/Net+SFWNV 64bit clean by switching to 64bit binaries on 64bit-only
> platforms" by a factor of at least _three_ (delivering twice the number
> of binaries, do the matching testing _and_ implementing packaging
> changes (and the testing for it)). 

So is this important or not ?  If it is important then please provide a 
spec for what you propose and explain where the value is.

Note I'm not saying I object I just sill haven't seen an actual spec and 
this is wasting your time and the time of ARC members by continuing to 
try and discuss this case without a proper spec.  Please work with your 
case sponsor to get a proper detailed spec in place and lets start with 
a fasttrack.

 > This is technically ARC'able but no
> longer implementable for a single contributor (at least not if we intend
> to crawl over both trees and clean them up).

I don't see any reason why it isn't implementable by a single 
contributor and in any case that isn't relevant for the architecture review.

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Darren J Moffat