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From: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
To: Lorenzo Salvadore <developer@lorenzosalvadore.it>
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2024, Lorenzo Salvadore wrote:
>> [lang/gcc*] never adds MULTILIB for aarch64 (arm64).
>> 
>> But these days arm64 (aarch64) has lib32 support:
>> 14.0-RELEASE has it and main [so: 15] has it.

Does anyone use this, though? (It's not like FreeBSD provides proper 
bi-arch support with ports and everything.)

> I think this is not deliberate, but I have never touched this block
> of code since I took the GCC ports maintainership yet. We can
> probably add MULTILIB for aarch64 too and I will check into it
> as soon as possible.

When that code was written, aarch64 did not feature lib32 support. Is 
this, and support by lang/gcc*, "academic", or something users really 
want and are likely to use?

Gerald