Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:51:58 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> Subject: Re: ia32 ports... Message-ID: <20050228195158.GC59327@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050228181056.GC69361@aoi.wolfpond.org> References: <16931.17425.441677.617748@canoe.dclg.ca> <20050228181056.GC69361@aoi.wolfpond.org>
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:10:56PM +0100, Francois Tigeot wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:17:21AM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: > > Having wrestled with a few ports (including java) on amd64, what I > > don't understand is why we don't have the capability to compile ia32 > > versions of ports that won't compile in amd64 mode... > > It would be even better to have an option to compile amd64 binaries with > 32-bit pointers. > Unclean code would be able to run an still benefit from the amd64 > architectural improvements (more registers, better abi, etc...) The extra registers (and thus ABI) is not supported in 32-bit mode for compatability reasons. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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