From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/1404 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Spencer Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: x32 (was: Re: [musl] musl 0.9.3 released) Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2012 14:30:18 +0200 Message-ID: <501E675A.5020605@barfooze.de> References: <20120803023633.GG544@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <9251.50.0.229.11.1344128449.squirrel@lavabit.com> <501DEF70.6060900@barfooze.de> <40178.50.0.229.11.1344142584.squirrel@lavabit.com> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344169740 14984 80.91.229.3 (5 Aug 2012 12:29:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 12:29:00 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-1405-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Aug 05 14:28:59 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sxzx2-0006f5-Me for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Aug 2012 14:28:56 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 25968 invoked by uid 550); 5 Aug 2012 12:28:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 25959 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2012 12:28:54 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 SUSE/3.1.8 Mail/1.0 In-Reply-To: <40178.50.0.229.11.1344142584.squirrel@lavabit.com> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:1404 Archived-At: On 08/05/2012 06:56 AM, idunham@lavabit.com wrote: >> On 08/05/2012 03:00 AM, idunham@lavabit.com wrote: >>> >>> All of these sound good. >>> I'm not sure about whether many people would be interested in x32, >>> though?... >> x32 is the latest hype and a lot of work has recently been put into >> toolchain, kernel and debugger support. >> this is probably a good opportunity to get the attention of early >> adopters. > Well, actually, a lot of work has recently been _finished_, so > glibc/binutils/kernel/... now have stable support. Early adopters have > been using it for a year or few. untrue, gcc 4.7 which was released a couple weeks ago and the upcoming gdb 7.5 are the first to support x32. the kernel supports it since a few months. this is all brand-new, and definitely not "stable" yet. i haven't yet seen a x32 distro yet, so anybody using it already lives on bleeding edge.