On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:28:09PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > I guess you are talking about the work already contributed by > Alexandre Oliva. The "simple solution" mentioned before was a > part of it. The relocation handling is still horrible.
I suppose I should say that "not as bad as before" means "can mostly generate working n32/n64 programs", not that it is any less horrible. > > By the way, the 32-bit kernel could have an N32 mode added; it's > > fairly straightforward to merge the bits currently in the 64-bit > > kernel that you'd need. You'd also need a very modern glibc. > > It definitely can't. You are missing the fact that N32 has 64bit > register widths. Why does that make a difference? I suppose that I don't know the details of what mode things like the context switch routines run in. >From looking at the code, it would seem that it's the 32-bit mode in the 32-bit kernel. greg
