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Re: Builds disturbed by the usage of a 64bit kernel.



Albert Cahalan writes:

> Running a 32-bit userspace on a 64-bit kernel is
> however gross, foul, bad, nasty, and wrong.

Rubbish.  It makes a lot of sense for most userspace programs to be
32-bit on a 64-bit PowerPC system.  Unless a program needs to do
64-bit integer arithmetic or access more than 4GB of address space, it
will be smaller and faster as a 32-bit process than as a 64-bit
process.

PowerPC doesn't disadvantage 32-bit code the way that x86-64 and ia64
do.

Paul.



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