Hello,
I have one application, written in C & assembly and it is running on Linux and Solaris. It is written for 32 bit platform . I have to port it to 64 bit platform.
From "C" point of view, I am looking for the following trouble spots
Pointer assignments
Bit handling

From assembly point of view: I am thinking of understanding existing assembly instructions and find out its equivalent (or impact on) 64 bit instructions.

Can anyone give me more views?

Regards,
Karthik.

It's best to use int64_t / uint64_t when you really need 64 bits, then use int / unsigned int otherwise, as they are tipically less than or equal the register's size. For pointers you may use uintptr_t. Always use off_t for file offsets. Be careful with the use of explicit casting because they turn off compiler warnings about discrepancies between sizes, ie: when mapping files into memory, mmap() uses size_t but the size of the file is off_t (struct stat st.size). FreeBSD, 64-bit Solaris and 64-bit Linux (native 64-bits or with Largefile Support) use 64-bits off_t and 32-bits size_t, so you must hack a bit to fully map large files.

A few pointers:
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/c...P64Issues.html
http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/datasize.html
http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lfs20mar.html
http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lfs.html
http://unix.freshmeat.net/articles/view/709/