Re: 2.6.10: SPARC64 mapped figure goes unsignedly negative...

[Nix]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Hugh Dickins suggested tentatively:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Nix wrote:
>> /proc/meminfo on my UltraSPARC IIi:
>> Mapped:       18446744073687883208 kB
>> 
>> (This kernel is compiled with GCC-3.4.3, which might be relevant.)
> 
> Indeed: sparc64 gcc-3.4 seems to be having trouble with that
> since 2.6.9: we've been persuing it offlist, I'll factor you in.

Excellent; thank you!

(2.6.10 seems to *run* perfectly well on that box, for what it's worth;
unless this is a symptom of some underlying dark and terrible failure,
it looks like a not-very-important cosmetic bug.)

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