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From: "Dieter Stüken" <stueken@conterra.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: mixing 32 and 64 bit?
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:18:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44893D00.8090807@conterra.de> (raw)

I just wonder how some userland applications are able to use 64-bit 
capabilities although they are started by an  ELF 32-bit binary. I observed
this when installing vmware: Even if the binary is an ELF32, it is
able to provide an 64Bit ABI to its guest OS. Until now I thought a
process is either 32bit or 64bit. Seems this is not true. 

Has some one a good link or entry point about this topic?
I could not find a matching keyword to search for. 

Regards, Dieter.

             reply	other threads:[~2006-06-09  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-09  9:18 Dieter Stüken [this message]
2006-06-09 14:54 ` mixing 32 and 64 bit? Lennart Sorensen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-06-11  6:09 Chuck Ebbert

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