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Re: i386 executables on amd64?



On 21/08/17 09:29 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 06:01:03PM -0700, John Conover wrote:
I inherited a project to install a pile of C code, compiled and
running on Debian Wheezy i386 machine, to a Debian jessie amd64
machine.

Astonishingly, most of the Wheezy i386 executables run on the Jessie
amd64 machine, (which came with the project.)

Is this to be expected?
Sounds like whoever set up the jessie machine already set up this:
<https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch>

Perhaps, or perhaps the i386 executables were statically linked.


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