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

[Joerg Schilling]

Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:

> [1]=(SPARC is actually a good choice since it enforces the natural
> alignment of datatypes which is needed for some ports (but not all, e.g.
> AMD64 doesn't require this))

My experience from making OpeenSolaris software 64 bit clean (sh, sccs*, diff)
did not show up any such problem. The typical bugs in the software I fixed 
have been: 

-	missing function prototypes

-	bad/missing pointer casts (e.g. ececl*())

-	pointer/int assignements

-	unintialized variables (this also hit's 32 bit!!!!)

-	use of int where long or explicit (*int*_t) types would bee needed

-	incorrect printf() format strings

In general, the state of many userland programs is still how people would 
expect it 20 years ago.

Jörg

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