Re: [9fans] Plan 9 installation disc question

[Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>]

OK, that's fine. So I still don't know what is wrong, but I'll try  
drawterm when I get Plan 9 up on the network (see my Broadcom emails;  
I'm buying a card soon)

On Oct 24, 2007, at 12:30 PM, David Leimbach wrote:

>
>
> On 10/23/07, Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com> wrote: > Mac OS  
> X is still 32bit last I checked.  You're likely having an EFI related
> > issue.
>
> MacOS X 10.4.9+ is already 64 bit capable, at least on the
> MacBook Pro
>
> $ sysctl machdep.cpu.brand_string
> machdep.cpu.brand_string: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU         T7400  @  
> 2.16GHz
>
> $ sysctl hw.optional.x86_64
> hw.optional.x86_64: 1
>
> $ cat > ilp.c <EOF
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main(int c, char**v) {
>     printf("i:%d l:%d ll:%d p:%d\n",
>            sizeof(int), sizeof(long), sizeof(long long), sizeof 
> (void*));
> }
> EOF
>
> $ cc -m32 ilp.c -o ilp4
> $ cc -m64 ilp.c -o ilp8
>
> $ file ilp4 ilp8
> ilp4: Mach-O executable i386
> ilp8: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
>
> $ ilp4
> i:4 l:4 L:8 p:4
> $ ilp8
> i:4 l:8 L:8 p:8
>
> it's increasingly offtopic but yes :-)
>
> The whole system is not 64bit end to end.  Objective C and Cocoa  
> aren't yet 64bit, and I've yet to fail to get alignment errors with  
> certain C memory allocation functions on my MBP with Tiger.
>
> I hope it's all fixed Friday, not that I see me using 64bit apps  
> too much, I don't think I have enough RAM, even if the extra  
> registers give me a bit of a performance boost  :-)
>
> Dave