Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: MULTI_ABI support addition to main tree portage

[Alexey Shvetsov]

Well ok =)

i call it ia32 since its original name of this arch however it can be
better called x86 (x86_32 and x86_64)

PS seems many users were confused with ia64 since they associate it
with core2 and nahalem

2010/12/1 Diego Elio Pettenò <flameeyes@×××××.com>:
> Il giorno mer, 01/12/2010 alle 22.11 +0300, Alexey Shvetsov ha scritto:
>>
>> PS also with this feature seems amd64 and x86 can be merged in one
>> arch (like it was done in kernel) since its only abis of ia32
>>
> I would suggest against that.
>
> For the kernel it's somewhat easier, but for userland, x86 and amd64 are
> definitely far enough that I wouldn't be surprised if it'll take a few
> more years before we can easily consider the two keywords a single one.
>
> Just think of a relatively-common situation.
>
> void *bar = foo();
>
> with foo implicitly declared. On 32-bit userland it'll be "all fine",
> but will crash badly on 64-bit userland.
>
> And this is without adding to the necessity of PIC, and the rest of
> little details that this brings with it.
>
> For the sake of safety, let's _not_ merge this, as we have said too many
> times for me to dig up.
>
>
> And finally, let's not call it ia32. No matter what Intel wants it to be
> called, if you were to call it like that, you'd just have a number of
> people asking why their ia64 stage don't work.
>
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