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Re: PATCH: Fix __WORDSIZE for ia64.
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 01:13:33 -0700
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix __WORDSIZE for ia64.
> 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.