On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 06:57:39PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > While scanning the libc-alpha list recently I read [M] that arm64ilp32 > was never upstreamed in Linux nor glibc? If so, I think there's little > point in carrying the arch definitions in dpkg, and I guess that would > not make the cut if requested now (for reference this was requested in > bug #824742). Does anyone know whether it was ever used or it is being > used even if privately/internally somewhere? I'd think that could be a > good argument to make an exception, and keep this for a while still. I > see no usage of this arch in Debian Sources files for example, so it'd > seem safe to remove the arch definition in the Debian context. > > [M] <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2023-November/152521.html> > > For armeb, I assume it was properly upstreamed at the time, and it was > actually used, even if it's currently not in use (like arm) I see tons > of references in Sources files, and thus removing the arch definitions > for either of these would not be safe right now I think.
armeb definitely was used in systems. Certainly everything I could find about arm64ilp32 seems to indicate it was experimental and support has been deleted from gcc and libc quite a long time ago at least as far as I can tell. I sure can't find the code in the kernel anymore unless it is well hidden. -- Len Sorensen
