From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAtL4-0004Ec-T3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:59:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81HrQQU023965; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:53:26 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81HmEWS017715 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:48:14 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAtD0-0001Cz-CA for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:50:42 +0000 Received: (qmail 15150 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2005 13:45:06 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 1 Sep 2005 13:45:06 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:50:58 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050901171028.GW18440@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <200509011923.58239@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <43173CC8.4090606@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <43173CC8.4090606@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509011350.58025.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: eb57411d-c198-4d35-99f5-40e47de831e7 X-Archives-Hash: 2758ce024135e99e8ae1549d9ac9beb5 On Thursday 01 September 2005 01:39 pm, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > > I hope this not. As (iirc) I already said, it's impossible to combine x86 > > with anything else that's not 100% source and binary compatible with > > itself... The reason is actually simple: x86 is, or at least was, the > > reference architecture for almost all programmers. > > Witih amd64 becoming so widespread, this will change. will != now maybe down the road i'd be for this, but right now i think it's just a waste of time ... too many packages suck at life ... just yesterday i fixed a new release (made in the last month) of a package which loved to cast pointers to 'int' and then try to use the result -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list