The x32 subarchitecture may be removed

Posted Dec 13, 2018 16:26 UTC (Thu) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106)
In reply to: The x32 subarchitecture may be removed by eru
Parent article: The x32 subarchitecture may be removed

> you must make sure that all modules are compiled with the same memory model option, and any precompiled libraries you link against are for the same memory model as your code

But that's already true for x32 code. The ABI proposed by linuxrocks123 (32-bit pointers but x86_64 system calls) would be similar to x32 but implemented entirely in userspace, with pointer size translation at the user <-> kernel boundary.