I'm posting it here hoping I hit the right list. After seeing what a speed boost mplayer has gotten from doing a 64bit compile, I figured, I'll do the same to various other applications I have here. mplayer and gvim compiled and run fine. Doing the same to xchat and pidgin however result in applications that instantly seem to gobble up 4GB of RAM according to prstat. Starting them with mdb and then interrupting them always reveals them to be in some sort of string or iconv function. Are these two applications simply not 64bit safe or is there another issue here? I would be surprised if it was former, since my laptop runs 64bit Ubuntu with both 64bit builds of the two apps (that came from their repo).
Compiler's gcc 4.3.1, the flags used these: CC="gcc -m64" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mssse3 -msse4.1 -O2 -mfpmath=sse" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-64 -Wl,-zdirect -Wl,-Bdirect" ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin/amd64 --libdir=/usr/lib/amd64 --sbindir=/usr/sbin/amd64 Thanks for any info, -mg -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
