Multilib and Linux.

[Matthew Kirkwood]

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, David Miller wrote:

>      > 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.

Merced running i386 binaries is still stricly emulation, I believe, so I'd
see that as cross-compilation, rather than multiple ABIs.

Matthew.