Am 21.05.2012 16:38, schrieb Ionut Biru: > On 05/21/2012 04:21 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> Upstream changes: >> http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges >> >> The x86_32 switch is not yet enabled. >> > > No yet? IMO we don't need this option unless we want to start providing > an x86_32 port.
I can almost guarantee that there will be a feature request for it soon, for whatever reason. Provided that it probably only uses a few KB in the kernel, it won't hurt us. I see the following use case: Someone will want to do some computations where the overhead and memory footprint of x86_64 is a problem. It would then be possible to build an x32 glibc, similar to our multilib approach, and then compile their applications against it.
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