On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:06:33PM +0200, ext Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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).
>
that's what i said: it doesn't change the existing x86 (i686)
architecture, it replaces it. ;) x86 will still be around for a while.
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