Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
On Mon, January 5, 2009 18:01, Cristian RodrÃguez wrote:
Per Jessen escribió:
I wouldn't bother. I've recently switched my external servers from 64bit to 32bit - it saved me quite a bit of memory. My workstation is 64bit for now, but I'll most probably also re-install that with 32bit. And you blamed the 64 bit architecture for bugs in programs ?
I didn't see him blaming anyone. Some software may work perfectly on x32 while barfing on x64, especially software that wasn't designed with x64 in mind. Making software compatible with every conceivable architecture upgrade of the distant future would add massive layers of abstraction.
Many years ago, while taking a C programming course, I ran into some "gotchas" with variable sizes, when moving between 32 & 16 bit systems. In class, we were using Borland's Turbo C++ for DOS and at home I had Borland C++ for OS/2. There was a difference in the size of some variable types, such as INT, so that a program that ran fine at home would fail in class, because I had exceeded the maximum integer size. However, I have no idea how 32 & 64 bit systems compare with this issue. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org