From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R4ajU-0008AY-GN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:53:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33B8F21C1FD; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:53:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E990C21C1EB for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 497CA1B4014 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:52:42 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] x32 fun pants Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:52:41 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.1.0-rc4; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <201109151534.07155.vapier@gentoo.org> <20110916133632.GD5000@comet> In-Reply-To: <20110916133632.GD5000@comet> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5547910.afnD1zJrTU"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201109161152.41697.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2fa90c95bc34b18aecff3cf85b2e651d --nextPart5547910.afnD1zJrTU Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday, September 16, 2011 09:36:32 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > understanding is that it probably makes sense to switch to x32 no matter > what you're using now (x86 or amd64). x32 needs a 64bit processor, so x86 cant go away as it's the only ABI that = can=20 run on 32bit processors but for 64bit processors, it seems like x32 would be more common than x86_6= 4. =20 x32 comes with a 4GiB address space (since its pointers are 32bit), so ther= e=20 will always be a niche that wants the larger space that 64bit brings you. so long term, i wouldnt be surprised if we move to: MULTILIBS=3D"x86 amd64 x32" DEFAULT_ABI=3D"x32" or when multilib-portage lands, we default to just x32 (except glibc/gcc wh= ich=20 has them all) and pull in the other two when people ask explicitly. =2Dmike --nextPart5547910.afnD1zJrTU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJOc3DJAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBqQQP/0SfO8hhYW+udXJRfqSUFu0W zpglYL35CWit/fihU2kBu5PDl/t+vFafuHbLYNaXLkWWWJs0eNCEJs2ym/b0esyn XboARarB/lDYsPS4f2YqjtOq9x49uKLtvJPB+daUEnCTgg5Xzde9l/dYGIeoXUj9 kVXNAXPPN2ZMsCC+oOzkUPOm+v37GAjWXHWGMG79BD3W/zYSxtqK7EbBxw1vlDfR LsBBldFENOIyFc2S8m9Aewo5xcuX1MW0/qCriVlqcbF7EUmk+wEKhXVqCOZc24n9 UKxLXVQR44VJbQvDwNY0fwKxLfAthR8T/t/gRB4hHUxtg14hTnP718TJt18+obAf hU0idOvrmLEN473Syq3NhFELUgO9eKlUQzY+IiebVV5UJqqdn4BicEeGM6CcM0Lm eu1U/C54OKfGw7DVevk0nJX0XDKBzJgwhGwDiK6xJ4myYrojtjcxZSx9UayvaZXh rMZg4QyHlXOaWieBBV2TgF0pWMkTzMht1MwdFTEcRojrHvO7plVyr2ukQXS5XEWB 89r+V9ScBT5/oX3k44VI+5KAv/z6LdpLlPovVi+b4i0joe7IBLJwcz3AGeINaF01 EaQs7Hywky23IrqrBps4Xfm7V1OdenxMZl8bOMbPM1C8eTxLiZY0OZ4aqwlFOGhK nGCkTaujqa57EOlKF+ND =qAOr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5547910.afnD1zJrTU--