The x32 subarchitecture may be removed

Posted Dec 13, 2018 17:07 UTC (Thu) by jalla (guest, #101175)
Parent article: The x32 subarchitecture may be removed

I don’t have many personal systems running x32; but I do indeed still have a couple...

The x32 subarchitecture may be removed

Posted Dec 19, 2018 11:29 UTC (Wed) by arnd (subscriber, #8866) [Link] (2 responses)

Are you sure this is x32 and not a plain old x86-32? (some others misunderstood here)

If you indeed run x32, can you please reply to the email thread and explain what distro you have, why you chose x32, and what keeps you from migrating to either x86-32 or x86-64?

The x32 subarchitecture may be removed

Posted Jan 6, 2019 17:58 UTC (Sun) by jwakely (subscriber, #60262) [Link] (1 responses)

> Are you sure this is x32 and not a plain old x86-32? (some others misunderstood here)

The confusion isn't helped by Windows-land using "x64" to refer to x86_64, which unsurprisingly leads to people thinking that "x32" is just another name for x86-32 aka IA32 aka x86. Sigh.

The x32 subarchitecture may be removed

Posted Jan 6, 2019 18:33 UTC (Sun) by excors (subscriber, #95769) [Link]

> x86-32 aka IA32 aka x86

And watch out for IA-32 (x86) vs IA-64 (Itanium) vs IA-32e (AMD64). It's like a time capsule of Intel's ambitions in the early 00s.