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Re: Multilib and Linux.
- To: law@cygnus.com
- Subject: Re: Multilib and Linux.
- From: David Miller <davem@twiddle.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 13:48:51 -0700
- CC: hjl@lucon.org, libc-hacker@cygnus.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
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- Reply-To: davem@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:07:32 -0600
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
> For example, we have 2 ABIs on Linux/Sparc64, 32bit and 64bit.
> There are more like that. For one thing, I'd like people to use
> the 64bit ABI on 64bit machines.
I thought you were referring to x86 machines. It's certainly an issue
for families which have both 32bit and 64bit cpus.
I wonder how a Merced userland is going to work if we wish to allow
people to still compile 32-bit x86 binaries, even though the
instruction set is radically different between the two.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com