Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64

[Stephen P. Becker]

> I hope this not. As (iirc) I already said, it's impossible to combine x86 with
> anything else that's not 100% source and binary compatible with itself...
> The reason is actually simple: x86 is, or at least was, the reference
> architecture for almost all programmers.

Witih amd64 becoming so widespread, this will change.

> There are too many packages that works *just* on x86, both at source and
> binary level.

Doesn't the amd64 team have a set of 32-bit compat libs just to run 
binary packages?  When running 32-bit code, isn't amd64 basically just a 
glorified athlon-xp?

-Steve


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