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Date:      Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:46:14 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Dag-Erling =?utf-8?q?Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>, Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Subject:   Re: ELF dynamic loader name
Message-ID:  <200801140846.16143.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <86fxx1pkuv.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <477C82F0.5060809@freebsd.org> <478A6781.3030700@freebsd.org> <86fxx1pkuv.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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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



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