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Re: x32 “half” arrived… now what?



On Thu, 2013-06-06 at 22:40 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Jun  6, 2013 at 22:01:48 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> 
> > It was Linus' decree that no new ABI is allowed to suffer from the Y2k38
> > bug even if its word size is 32 bit, and I'd say he's right.  This means
> > that this problem will bite us the next time another 32 bit arch comes,
> > so there's no excuse to use this as an argument against x32.
> > 
> And I'd say there's no excuse to introduce new 32bit archs, so I'm
> hoping there won't be a next time.

Brace yourself for arm32...

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice.
                                - John Levine, moderator of comp.compilers

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