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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' =?iso-8859-1?q?Petten=F2?=" <flameeyes@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64
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On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:39, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
> Witih amd64 becoming so widespread, this will change.
You think it's a thing that changes in 2 days?

> Doesn't the amd64 team have a set of 32-bit compat libs just to run
> binary packages?  When running 32-bit code, isn't amd64 basically just a
> glorified athlon-xp?
Kernel-level code doesn't work. Some 32-bit binaries fails to work, and the=
=20
emul-libs are NOT a way to say "it's 32-bit"...
There are TOO many differences...

About p.mask.. no I don't like that solution, p.mask is good for a platform=
=20
profile (for example bsd's, darwin's or linux's), but not to arch level, we=
=20
have -* keywords for that, haven't we?

=2D-=20
Diego "Flameeyes" Petten=F2
Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
(Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM)

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