Re: mixing 32 and 64 bit?

Chuck Ebbert
2006-06-11T06:12:38Z

In-Reply-To: <44893D00.8090807@conterra.de>

On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:18:56 +0200, Dieter Stueken wrote:

> 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.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=110202845100001&r=1&w=2

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Chuck