Re: Future of 32-bit platforms (including i386)

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 16:34:41 UTC
On 4/28/23 5:17 PM, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> A larger question is what to do about 32-bit platforms moving forward.
> 
> FWIW while we do not use i386 kernels anymore
> compat32 support is very important.
> 
> Some of our daemons are very pointer heavy and up to a certain scale
> point, a 32bit app is more memory efficient, of course the 64bit version
> can scale much bigger but many customers do not need that.

Are you able to build your daemons with cc -32 with an amd64 world, or
do you require an i386 world to build against?

-- 
John Baldwin