[ofa-general] Re: OFED-1.2 compiles 32b apps on SLES 10 for IBM PPC

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Steve Wise <swise at opengridcomputing.com>:
> Subject: OFED-1.2 compiles 32b apps on SLES 10 for IBM PPC
> 
> I just built the ofed-1.2-rc1 kit on an IBM P5 PPC with SLES 10 and some
> the apps got built as 32b. Seems like gcc on this distro defaults to
> 32b:

In the past it was claimed that executables should be 32 bit
on this platform since they consume less memory/disk this way.
Look it up in the archives.

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