[haiku-development] Re: Feasibility of a 64-bit port?
- From: rhys <rhys@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:29:04 -0700
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:11:51 -0700, Urias McCullough
<umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Ryan Leavengood<leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> I don't think you would have much more difficulty porting to a 64-bit
>> platform than to any other platform. Of course having some backwards
>> compatibility to run standard 32-bit Haiku or old BeOS applications
>> may be more difficult. But I guess if Linux and Windows can do it we
>> could too. It probably could be done with the same sort of hybrid
>> system we use to support both gcc2 and gcc4 applications and
>> libraries.
>
> I suspect usually the pain is locating all the "lazy" uses of int
> rather than addr_t for pointers and fixing them, etc.
>
> Since all the current ports that are in progress are 32-bit (AFAIK),
> this hasn't been much of an issue yet.
>
> Ultimately, a 64bit port attempt would help clean this up, of course :)
>
> I'm not an expert, by any means, but I gather from discussions
> elsewhere that it can be pretty monotonous work.
>
> - Urias
Okay, I'll start working on an x64 port today, then - sounds like something
useful, monotonous or no.
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