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Re: PROPOSED: 32/64 bit coexistance



Luigi Genoni <venom@DarkStar.sns.it> writes:

> On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Theodore Tso wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 05:00:50 -0400
>> From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
>> To: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
>> Cc: fhs-discuss@ucsd.edu, linux-ia64@linuxia64.org,
>>      lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org, 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, David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>
>> Subject: Re: PROPOSED: 32/64 bit coexistance
>> Resent-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:02:12 +0200
>> Resent-From: lsb-spec@lists.linuxbase.org
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:34:50AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> >
>> >    * /lib: consistent scheme for all 32bit systems and x86-64,
>> >      sparc64, ppc64, zSeries (s390x).
>> >
>> >    * iA64 today has a 32bit emulation mode, but 64bit is the
>> >      (only) favored one; Alpha is too long established. (64bit
>> >      libs will go to /lib)
>> >
>>
>> Does Sparc/Ultrasparc use /lib and /lib64?  Or will this be a change
>> for the Ultrasparc platform?
> Actually userspace for ultrasparc is only 32 bits, there is a 64 bit
> compiler for the kernel, I think, but I've never seeen 64 bits libraries
> except the ones inside of /usr/lib/gcc-lib/<sprac>/<egcs-xxx>.

There is 64 bit userland for Sparc but AFAIK no real distribution.
Have a look at e.g. Jakub's system;-), he and some others have systems
with 64-bit userland,

Andreas
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