[OmniOS-discuss] Silly very-long-term question

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 12 Dec 2016, Dan McDonald wrote:

> How many folks in the audience are running 32-bit binaries that HAVE to be 32-bit for whatever reason?  The Y2038 problem crossed my mind today, and the easy permanent cure is to cut off support for 32-bit userland.

Default compilation in Solaris has historically been 32 bit. Switching 
to 64bit is eased if the compilation toolchain also defaults (and 
perhaps only supports) 64bit so that build processes do not need to 
change.

Large amounts of user-compiled software will be 32bit due to the very 
long history.  If OmniOS supports only 64-bit then it will be a bit of 
work to re-create the installed software as 64-bit.

Bob
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