On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:39, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Witih amd64 becoming so widespread, this will change. You think it's a thing that changes in 2 days?
> Doesn't the amd64 team have a set of 32-bit compat libs just to run > binary packages? When running 32-bit code, isn't amd64 basically just a > glorified athlon-xp? Kernel-level code doesn't work. Some 32-bit binaries fails to work, and the emul-libs are NOT a way to say "it's 32-bit"... There are TOO many differences... About p.mask.. no I don't like that solution, p.mask is good for a platform profile (for example bsd's, darwin's or linux's), but not to arch level, we have -* keywords for that, haven't we? -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM)
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