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Posted Apr 3, 2012 13:32 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: The 3.4 merge window is closed by HelloWorld
Parent article: The 3.4 merge window is closed

What will be the MultiArch tuple for x32 binaries, btw? And what will we use for ./configure --host=? In the SPARC land, "sparcv9" seems to have become the tag to use when referring to ELF32 binaries able to use 64-bit instructions.


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Posted Apr 3, 2012 16:51 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

it would seem to me that 'x32' in place of 'amd64' or 'i386' would be the obviously right answer (they may do something else, but why?)

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Posted Apr 3, 2012 17:02 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

Just wanted to be sure. After all, they already chose amd64 instead of x86_64 :-) [Then again, amd64 would be a lot more creditgiving would it appear in uname -m]

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Posted Apr 3, 2012 17:10 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

remember that at the time they named it amd64, Intel was very opposed to it, only AMD was shipping it, and there wasn't a x86 architecture, instead there were i[3456]86 architectures

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