From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Linux-IA64 execution of ILP32 binaries
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:35:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905247@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905245@msgid-missing>
>>>>> On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:39:55 -0800, "Smith, Phil" <APhil.Smith@compaq.com> said:
Phil> Has co-existance / running of 32-bit (ILP32) Linux executables
Phil> been addressed such that they could run under the LP64 data
Phil> model of Linux-IA64 ? If not, shouldn't the IA-64 section of
Phil> the Linux Standard Base address this ? I've only seen
Phil> references to the Intel ABI documents, which I don't believe
Phil> cover some of the (considerable)interoperability issues that
Phil> would be involved...
This comes up periodically and the answer remains the same: IA-64
Linux is LP64 _only_ and there is no effort to add ILP32 support. A
primary reason for this is to avoid market fragmentation, though there
are other reasons as well (see mailing list archive for earlier
discussions).
Of course, if you just want to run an old binary, you can get ILP32 in
the form of an x86 binary, but that won't perform at native speeds.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-12 22:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-12 20:39 [Linux-ia64] Linux-IA64 execution of ILP32 binaries Smith, Phil
2002-03-12 22:35 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2002-03-13 2:00 ` Smith, Phil
2002-03-13 2:07 ` David Mosberger
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