From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ports ... In-Reply-To: <20030605045955.GC73958@cassie.foobarbaz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:18:21 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c543f21c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 It would be work to move to 64 bit pointers. Not infinite though. The reliance is more on ulong and pointer being the same size. If they're both 64 bits, it'll be pretty easy. The truly hard part is changing the compiler and debugging it afterwards. If you have to simultaneously rewrite a compiler and do a port, its much easier to have multiple people.