Re: [Libvir] unsigned long

[John Levon <levon movementarian org>]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 02:20:21AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> > I just saw an email about unsigned long and max memory fly by along with
> > a comment like "32-bit will never have more than 'X' Gb" ...
> > 
> > This raises an obvious question: is libvirt explictly not 32/64 clean?
> > On Solaris we build everything 32-bit by default unless there is a
> > reason for it to be 64-bit. If a 32-bit libvirt can't handle a 64-bit
> > kernel, then we have a problem.
> 
>   Okay, I didn't realize that. Could you check what part of the API
> which are currently a problem w.r.t. this ? It would be good to have
> a list, and okay we should use long long for the NUMA cell free query
> API...

That's a good question. We should indeed do an audit so we can be aware
of problems. Hopefully we'll find time to do a quick sweep as move up to
more recent versions...

regards
john