ia32 ports...

[David O'Brien]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:10:56PM +0100, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:17:21AM -0500, David Gilbert wrote:
> > Having wrestled with a few ports (including java) on amd64, what I
> > don't understand is why we don't have the capability to compile ia32
> > versions of ports that won't compile in amd64 mode...
> 
> It would be even better to have an option to compile amd64 binaries with
> 32-bit pointers.
> Unclean code would be able to run an still benefit from the amd64
> architectural improvements (more registers, better abi, etc...)

The extra registers (and thus ABI) is not supported in 32-bit mode for
compatability reasons.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)