Subject: re: ancillary data alignment and binary backward compatibility: please pick one
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/29/2000 21:41:48 
   
    > well, it *should*.  note that it goes through an emulation layer
    > and we're gonna need to special case a Lot of ioctl's here for this
    > to work sanely (or, push part of this support out of compat/netbsd32).
    > this emulation layer isn't quite finished yet though eduardo has done
    > a large amount of work to make it so, at least for sparc64 (where it
    > is essential!)
   
   Right, well, also note that we're still running sparc64 systems in ILP32
   mode because of compiler lossage, right?


pretty much.  gcc 2.95* has mostly usable sparc64 support, FWIW.