XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: OrangeFish@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 2025-08-12 15:09, John Levine wrote:   
   > According to  :   
   >> In comp.arch BGB  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Also, IIRC, the major point of X32 was that it would narrow pointers and   
   >>> similar back down to 32 bits, requiring special versions of any shared   
   >>> libraries or similar.   
   >>>   
   >>> But, it is unattractive to have both 32 and 64 bit versions of all the   
   SO's.   
   >>   
   >> We have done something similar for years at Red Hat: not X32, but   
   >> x86_32, and it was pretty easy. If you're building a 32-bit OS anyway   
   >> (which we were) all you have to do is copy all 32-bit libraries from   
   >> one one repo to the other.   
   >   
   > FreeBSD does the same thing.  The 32 bit libraries are installed by default   
   > on 64 bit systems because, by current standards, they're not very big.   
      
   Same is true for Solaris Sparc.   
      
   OF.   
      
   >   
   > I've stopped installing them because I know I don't have any 32 bit apps   
   > left but on systems with old packages, who knows?   
   >   
      
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