amd64 and wine

Conrad J. Sabatier conrads at cox.net
Tue Feb 8 09:13:59 PST 2005


On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 07:54:53 +0000 (UTC), "Wilhelm B. Kloke"
<wb at arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:

> David O'Brien <obrien at freebsd.org> schrieb:
> > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 05:55:29PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote:
> >> Well... the other question is: does AMD64 run ia32 executables?
> >
> > Yes, both Linux & FreeBSD x86 32-bit binaries.
> 
> In fact, not really, because of loadable library issues etc.
> Only very simple programs work in 5.3-RELEASE.
> I would like to use ia32 opera, for instance.

Is there a "catalog" anywhere of the known issues involved in running
32-bit binaries under amd64?  If not, perhaps we should start one
somewhere, maybe in Wiki form(?), so that people could contribute their
bug reports/analyses, suggestions for possible approaches to fix them,
actual patches, workarounds, etc.

For me, personally, it's the Sun JDK 1.5.0 that I'd like to be able to
run in 32-bit, since I've encountered major memory consumption issues in
the 64-bit port which have yet to be addressed.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"


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