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 1RZT7b-00056v-I1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:02:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9288221C108; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:02:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B2B21C044 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:01:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 57B551B400C for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenm3 with SMTP id m3so3884974yen.40 for ; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:01:14 -0800 (PST) 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 Received: by 10.236.200.130 with SMTP id z2mr18648242yhn.25.1323547274385; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:01:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.236.110.20 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:01:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <201109151534.07155.vapier@gentoo.org> <201112100302.14676.vapier@gentoo.org> <201112101337.32789.vapier@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:01:14 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: x32 fun pants From: Mike Gilbert To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e9c71f7f-2fa6-493d-9c2b-daf426862c9b X-Archives-Hash: b6c5d7dc6c5b79d09ae9bb88ea624a76 On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Mike Frysinger wrot= e: >> On Saturday 10 December 2011 08:15:10 octoploid wrote: >>> Mike Frysinger gentoo.org> writes: >>> > =C2=A0- x32 is the default ABI >>> >>> Given that it's relatively easy to hit the 4GB barrier in the >>> toolchain (e.g. Firefox LTO build), wouldn't it make sense to >>> build gcc, binutils, et.al. as 64-bit LSB executables? >> >> no >> -mike > > On a completely random note, can you even build chromium with a 32-bit > linker? I vaguely recall it requiring more than 4gb of ram to link ;p > > -A > I think it is around 2.2 GB on amd64 with debug stuff (-ggdb). Under half that without the debug. I'm pretty sure there gentoo users on x86 that are able to build it; it does have an x86 keyword afterall. :)