64-bit OpenOffice.org help wanted [Was: Re: AMD64 Linux documentation]

Fri Dec 12 20:05:10 UTC 2003

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:53:25AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> If anyone is interested in helping out, and has or has access to the
> required hardware (either Sparc64, Alpha, PPC970, AMD64, Itanium) on
> _any_ OS, please either contact me or subscribe to
> dev at porting.openoffice.org for pointers or more information.

Two random thoughts:

(1) By placing program+data above 4GB in the address space,
    one should locate many sizeof(ptr) == 4 assumptions rather
    quickly by trapping on access to low addresses.

(2) An AMD64 version of Valgrind would help.

Regards,

	Bill Rugolsky