From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:37:25 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] native ia64 32-bits compile & run on linux-ia64? 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 >>>>> "David" = David Mosberger 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