Re: [PATCH] /proc/sys/kernel/pointer_size

David S. Miller
2003-01-09T04:31:35Z

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 23:00:25 -0500

Just to clarify something that I saw getting lost in this discussion:
Oprofile doesn't need to become built as a 64-bit binary, just
configured to accept 64-bit kernels. So this doesn't rule out using a
32-bit oprofile (i.e. not needing a 64-bit libc) on a 64-bit kernel.
It just means that we need to specify it somehow.

That's right, indeed. And furthermore, I'm willing to eat the 64-bit
overhead for all sparc builds. :)