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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Y21C Bug
Date: 2000/01/04
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In article <wccg0wfb02q.fsf@world.std.com>,
  Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> And from what I've heard, making Unix code "64-bit clean"
> hasn't been so easy, which is exactly the sort of thing Robert
> Dewar was talking about.

Indeed it is a HUGE effort to make some code 64-bit clean, and
my guess is that unices will support 32-bit code for a long
time, and it will be a bad earthquake when there is a
requirement to change legacy 32-bit code to make it 64-bit
compatible (as will possibly happen at the date blow up time
(which will happen in our life times for at least some of us).

> If it were as easy as changing some "Word_Size" constant, then
> people wouldn't have invented a fancy term like "64-bit clean"
> for it.  ;-)


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