Multilib and Linux.

David Miller davem@twiddle.net
Tue Apr 20 13:48:00 GMT 1999


   Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:07:32 -0600
   From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>

     > For example, we have 2 ABIs on Linux/Sparc64, 32bit and 64bit.
     > There are more like that. For one thing, I'd like people to use
     > the 64bit ABI on 64bit machines.

   I thought you were referring to x86 machines.    It's certainly an issue
   for families which have both 32bit and 64bit cpus.

I wonder how a Merced userland is going to work if we wish to allow
people to still compile 32-bit x86 binaries, even though the
instruction set is radically different between the two.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com



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