On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 06:37:25PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:31:17AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > * Hamish Moffatt: > > > > > Do you think it's likely that it can boot the kernel and run the build > > > environment without crashing, but produce broken binaries? > > > > We've got a few cases where emulated builds on amd64, sparc64 and > > s390x failed to produce working binaries for i386, sparc and s390. > > Usually, these are considered bugs in the affected packages. > > And what exactly is this "emulation"? It's just running the 32 bit > application on the 64 bit arch? >
Eg. syscalls are translated from the 32bit to the 64bit world (arch/x86_64/ia32/sys_ia32.c). L & L p2. -- Goa is a state of mind -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
