From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:36:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] gcc 3.0 question: ILP32 mode ? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On 31 Jul 2001 00:06:48 +0200, Jes Sorensen 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