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From: Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@...>
Subject: Re: fat binaries
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:30:38 +0100
Il giorno dom, 14/11/2010 alle 22.03 +0100, Thomas Kahle ha scritto:
> I have a package (sci-libs/mpir) whose configure supports building of
> fat binaries with both x86 and amd64 assembler in the binary. 

Oh the heck are they implemented? If they are FatELF, no they shouldn't
be used, ever, full stop.

In most cases, this sounds fishy and almost a hack deemed to failure so
my default vote would be "do not expose this functionality to the user".

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