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On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:46:33PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> So I'm about to try setting up the x32 arch in a VM. I notice there's no |
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> handbook for it, though there is for amd64 and x86. I'm considering x32 |
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> for its lighter memory footprint... |
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> Does anyone know of any notable differences between the setup process |
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> for amd64 and x32, or should I expect things to be relatively smooth? |
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I think that there are some problems with packages that rely on assembly |
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code (as there would have x32 specific assembly) so you get either |
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unoptimised binarys (if assembly is just for performance reasons) or |
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compilation will fail at all. |
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That was the reasoning why it's ten years too late (back then the same |
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problem existed with x86_64 - the asm needed to be ported). |