From: David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] gcc 3.0 question: ILP32 mode ?
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:36:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005959@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005928@msgid-missing>
>>>>> On 31 Jul 2001 00:06:48 +0200, Jes Sorensen <jes@sunsite.dk> said:
Jose> Some code is just not worth cleaning up because it is too big,
Jose> and will never require 64 bit addressing, but still useful to
Jose> have in native mode, mostly because of the performance gap
Jose> between ia32 and ILP32 which will moreover widen with the
Jose> McKinley chip. Look at netscape, it has never been cleaned up,
Jose> it was ported on linux alpha using the DEC/Compaq/(Intel now?)
Jose> compiler in taso mode (32 bit pointers).
Jes> Linux/Alpha's glibc doesn't support 32 bit pointers afaik.
Note that netscape doesn't/didn't get cleaned up for 64 bits because
Mozilla already *is* 64-bit clean.
I have yet to see a program that is worth running in natively yet not
worth cleaning up for 64 bits.
--david
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-30 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-26 19:50 [Linux-ia64] gcc 3.0 question: ILP32 mode ? Jose Luu
2001-07-26 20:18 ` Boehm, Hans
2001-07-26 20:19 ` Rich Altmaier
2001-07-26 22:42 ` Jose Luu
2001-07-26 23:32 ` Don Dugger
2001-07-30 22:06 ` Jes Sorensen
2001-07-30 22:15 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-30 22:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-07-30 22:36 ` David Mosberger [this message]
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