From: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] native ia64 32-bits compile & run on linux-ia64?
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:37:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805915@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590698805893@msgid-missing>
>>>>> "David" = David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> writes:
David> I think one point that hasn't been made so far is that we
David> actively discourage supporting an ILP32 data model for IA-64
David> Linux to avoid splitting ia64 linux into two different worlds
David> (32-bit and 64-bit world). If we supported ILP32, it's very
David> likely that some ISVs will decide to provide *only* 32-bit
David> libraries, which could in turn force other ISVs to stay with
David> 32-bit just because they couldn't get the pre-requisite 64-bit
David> libraries. My understanding is that IRIX suffered from this
David> effect.
Very good point, and even if we went down that road one could argue we
should only go for IP32 with long's being 64 bit.
Just say no ;)
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-22 19:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-21 15:01 [Linux-ia64] native ia64 32-bits compile & run on linux-ia64? Francois-Xavier Kowalski
2002-01-21 15:49 ` n0ano
2002-01-21 17:07 ` Francois-Xavier Kowalski
2002-01-21 17:27 ` Jes Sorensen
2002-01-21 17:30 ` n0ano
2002-01-22 8:43 ` Francois-Xavier Kowalski
2002-01-22 19:02 ` David Mosberger
2002-01-22 19:37 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2002-01-23 11:27 ` Francois-Xavier Kowalski
2002-01-23 17:46 ` Boehm, Hans
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