From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 22:35:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Linux-IA64 execution of ILP32 binaries 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 Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:39:55 -0800, "Smith, Phil" 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