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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:57:28 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
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Segher Boessenkool writes:

> Like I asked before -- should we run this emulation on 32-bit
> machines at all?  The instruction only exists in the 64-bit
> architecture after all.

It could be argued either way, but on the whole I would prefer to
minimize the number of things which could cause a 32-bit program that
runs quite happily on a 64-bit CPU to fail on a 32-bit CPU...

Paul.