On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 09:43:58AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 07:54:18AM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote:
> > > No. That's just what I remembered from the early days of debian-amd64.
> > > I thought that programs could expect parts of the libraries to be 64 bit
> > > and parts to be 32 bit which won't work, of course, if the 32 bit version
> > > would not be around.
> >
> > AIUI, that's not how AMD64 works. If I understood things right, 64bit
> > applications can only use 64 libraries; you can't mix them in one
> > program.
>
> What's the benefit of a mixed environment then?
The ability to run both 32bit and 64bit applications without having to
mess with chroots?
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