[vlc] Re: Experience with AMD64 and linux ?

[Benjamin PRACHT]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005, Derk-Jan Hartman wrote :
> Well the problem is this. There are more than likely MANY 32-isms in 
> VLC itself as well as in any of it's many libraries that it uses for 
> various tasks. VLC developers have so far not looked into this, mostly 
> for the reason that i know of no active developer that runs in native 
> 64 bit mode.
> 
> So a developer with a 64 bit machine and some knowledge of porting to 
> such platforms probably has to lay some of the groundwork for this to 
> be able to work.
> 

VLC used to work on sparc and alpha some time ago... So, it might be
that 64 bit unfriendly code has been added recently, but fixing it
should hopefully not take too much time...

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BigBen

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