[OpenAFS-devel] Disposing of non-64bit environment code

Steve Simmons scs@umich.edu
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:08:18 -0400


On Sep 26, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Simon Wilkinson wrote:

> According to the settings in config/param.h we have a very, very small =
number of configuration settings which don't set the AFS_64BIT_ENV =
define...
>=20
> These are:
>=20
> sun4_413
> sub4x_55
> sunx86_54
> *_nbsd15
> *_nbsd16
>=20
> Does anyone still care about these platforms, or can we get rid of the =
AFS_64BIT_ENV code?

No interest here; none of them are in use in any systems we support. =
There may be a few clients out there in the field, but they seem to be =
perfectly happy running an obsolete AFS version on their obsolete OS =
version.

> Second question...
>=20
> Even on 64 bit platforms, afs_hyper_t uses two 32 bit values to =
represent an 64 bit value. Do we still need to do this (the && 0 which =
disables this dates back to IBM days)?

Nuke 'me.=