Support for i386 builds of glibc?

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> So the question I have to ask myself is: Are we willing to support
> i386 builds of glibc? Why? Why not?

At least for Linux (I don't know about Hurd), I don't think it has ever 
worked for NPTL (because of __sync_* operations that are only implemented 
for i486 and above), and since the Linux kernel has removed i386 support I 
don't think it would be worth trying to add such support back to glibc.

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Joseph S. Myers
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