Multiarch crazyiness

Matthew Saltzman mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Mon Oct 22 16:03:05 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 11:04 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:46:52 +0200
> Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:
> 
> > 32 bit is not going away, I share your wishes, but really it is not
> > going to go away anytime soon.
> 
> 
> Specifically not on arches like ppc64 (you want 32bit runtime) and
> Sparc64 (you want 32bit runtime).  See a pattern here?

32-bit runtime in general?  Why?  (Not a critical "why", a genuinely
curious "why"...)

> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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