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From: Tomasz Kosiak <tkosiak <at> ZJEDNOCZENIE.COM>
Subject: Re: AOLserver on Suse 64-bit AMD Opteron
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.aolserver
Date: 2004-07-09 04:21:00 GMT (3 years, 44 weeks, 1 day and 23 minutes ago)
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Jim Davidson wrote:

>
> In a message dated 7/7/2004 6:34:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> tkosiak <at> ZJEDNOCZENIE.COM writes:
>
> Does  anybody successfully run AOLserver on 64-bit AMD Opeteron?
>
> I've  compiled AOLserver 4.0.5 on Suse Linux running on 64-bit AMD
> Opteron  without any problems.
>
> But AOLserver doesn't start, only prints the  following message:
>
> $ ./bin/nsd -ft sample-config.tcl
> NsTclInitObjs:  sizeof(int) < sizeof(long)
> Aborted
>
>
>
>
> I think I added the check for sizeof(int) < sizeof(long) to make sure  the
> code which converts strings to internal Ns_Time types wouldn't  overflow.  Try
> just commenting out the checks in nsd/tclobjs.c -- it may  just work.
> AOLserver ran on 64bit DEC Alpha machines fine for years but  there hasn't been an
> exhaustive review to make sure everything is truely 64bit  clean.
>
> -Jim
>

Thanks for explanation. After commenting out suggested check AOLserver
starts and operates normally - as far as I've tested it so far.

--tkosiak

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