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Cc: Dag-Erling =?utf-8?q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>,
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Subject: Re: ELF dynamic loader name
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On Sunday 13 January 2008 02:48:56 pm Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote:
> Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> writes:
> >   * The kernel already has logic to translate refs to this
> > library to "ld-elf<platform>.so.1" for the single
> > special case of i386 on amd64 (even though "i386" seems to
> > be spelled "32" in this case).
>=20
> Not only that, but also for 32-bit Linux binaries on i386, and 32-bit
> and 64-bit Linux binaries on amd64.

Not for Linux, but it is for any 32-bit FreeBSD apps on a 64-bit kernel.
So currently i386 on amd64 and i386 on ia64, but it could also be used
to run 32-bit sparc binaries (if we had any) on sparc64.

=2D-=20
John Baldwin