ia32 ports...

[Francois Tigeot]

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 Digital C compiler had such an option on Alpha machines.

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Francois Tigeot