On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:07:20AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > If everything in main can be ported to pure64 there is little need for > multiarch on amd64. This is correct for amd64 which have 16 instead of 8 general purpose registers. The other Architectures already had 16 or 32 registers in 32bit mode and 64bit executables are mostly not faster than the 32bit compilates. So no need to have anything doubled, it will just get larger. Bastian -- ... The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other. -- Kirk, "Elaan of Troyius", stardate 4372.5
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