Stewart Stremler wrote:
begin quoting Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade as of Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:29:28AM -0800:
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In my experience, the only real-world benefit for the general use case
of most desktop systems is that running 64-bit lets you use more than
3GB of RAM.
The UNIX 2038 bug.
That's not a bug -- it's a design feature of the original Unix system
architecture where the binary time count is in a 32-bit integer and
referenced to an epochal point causing it to roll over in 2038. If you
did not change the base type to 64-bit, even recompiling all of the
library and applications on a 64-bit machine will not correct the problem.
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