Re: AMD64

Michel Arboi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Gene C." <[email protected]> writes:

> Has anyone gotten nessus to work in 64 bit mode specifically on an AMD 
> Athlon64 or Opteron (x86_64)?  

AFAIK, if you don't need 64 bit mode, don't use it: executables are
bigger and thus slower.

> Right now I am getting a problem compiling 
> nessus-libraries/libnessus/network.c where the gcc 3.3.2 compile
> hangs when run with -O2.

What do you mean by "hang"? If it is a GCC or Fedora problem, ask
another mailing list.

Just a personal opinion: Redhat 9 was a dreadfull OS for development
(I switched to Gentoo). If you really want to try a band new (and
possibly buggy) proc, you'd better use a distro that is more stable
than Fedora.

> I am also getting a lot of warning messages saying that "cast of pointer to 
> integer of different size" which leads me to believe that even if it dows 
> compile, it may not work.

Unless some GCC switch can implement short pointers or long integers. 
Did anybody try to compile Nessus on other 64 bit machines? e.g. Alpha
or Sparc?

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