Re: PROPOSED: 32/64 bit coexistance
- To: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
- Cc: Oliver Paukstadt <pstadt@stud.fh-heilbronn.de>, George Kraft IV <gk4@austin.ibm.com>, lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org, fhs-discuss@ucsd.edu, Brad_Brech/Rochester/IBM@de.ibm.com, jporell@us.ibm.com, Michael_Day/Austin/IBM@de.ibm.com, Ron_Clark/Austin/IBM@de.ibm.com, George_Kraft/Austin/IBM@de.ibm.com, Paul_McKenney/Beaverton/IBM@de.ibm.com, Kenneth_Rozendal/Austin/IBM@de.ibm.com, Satya_Sharma/Austin/IBM@de.ibm.com, ADLUNG@de.ibm.com, dbb@caldera.com, mkraft@suse.de, oliver.paukstadt@millenux.com
- Subject: Re: PROPOSED: 32/64 bit coexistance
- From: Julie <jockgrrl@austin.rr.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 22:52:41 -0500
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Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> A simple way to accomplish both is to put an binary type specifier
> (i386-linux). gcc already does that, see /usr/lib/gcc-lib. Doing
> that would be very nice: it means you could share your filesystem
> space amongst many different types of machine without any worries
> for example.
Whatever the ultimate solution, it would be nice to keep this
last sentence in mind. IBM alone has a slew of 32 and 64 bit
architectures which run Linux.
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