On Tuesday, 18 de October de 2011 18:20:20 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 03:25:12PM +0200, ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > x86 is the only remaining major architecture to pass arguments on the
> > stack
> > exclusively. That's to change with x32, see
> > http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/
> 
> well, that doesn't actually change the existing architecture.
> it would be correct to say that it obsoletes most of the remaining use
> cases for "real" 32 bit code on modern x86 processors.

Well, actually it does. x32 is a different instruction set from x86.

x32 is x86-64 running in ILP32 mode (int, long, ponters 32-bit). Other 64-bit 
architectures can run ILP32 too: UltraSparc, MIPS, PA-RISC, Itanium.

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