On 11 March 2017 at 15:18, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2017/03/10 23:56, ropers wrote: > > On 10 March 2017 at 01:30, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> > > wrote: > > > > (And unlike Linux, 32-bit OpenBSD binaries won't run on OpenBSD/ > > amd64) > > > > > > Is there a technical reason for that? > > I'm not trying to demand anything here; just curious. > > > > This is NOT intended to be a "but teh Linux does X, so should we, so > > why can't we" whine. > > I'm merely ignorantly interested in a "what are they doing, what's > > OpenBSD doing" kind of way. > > I think that even just adding basic support would be complicated and > likely error-prone. Is there anything it would actually be useful for? > Personally, I'm really just asking out of technical curiosity. This is not about whether I'd ever actually want or feel I'd need to run 32-bit OpenBSD binaries on OpenBSD/amd64. Was 32-on-64 compatibility somehow easier to achieve on the Linux side? Or did they just keep throwing code and more code at the problem because they felt they really, really had to have this? It's that kind of idle curiosity. If nobody's interested in explaining or hearing this explained, then sorry for the noise.
