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Re: RFC: Add 32bit x86-64 support to binutils

On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Richard Guenther wrote:

> Would be nice if LFS would be mandatory on the new ABI, thus
> off_t being 64bits.

That's certainly abstractly better (and something BSDs do better than 
GNU/Linux).  I expect you'd run into a few complications actually making a 
32-bit glibc port like that (lots of the generic 32-bit code will want to 
build separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions as functions; maybe it will be 
easy to build things with those just ending up as duplicates, but making 
them aliases, as they generally are for 64-bit, could be harder).

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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