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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
Cc: 68202@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#68202] [PATCH 0/5] Add support for x86_64-linux-gnux32
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2024 18:14:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875y034ujk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1704179455.git.efraim@flashner.co.il> (Efraim Flashner's message of "Tue, 2 Jan 2024 09:26:13 +0200")

Hi,

Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:

> I was reminded recently about a comment I made back in February 2017
> about getting guix support for x32, aka x86_64-linux-gnux32, aka
> x86_64-linux but with 32-bit data structures.  The idea was that by
> using 32-bit pointers there'd be a not insignificant speed-up of code
> execution¹.  I am uncertain how true this is, or which packages would
> really benefit from this.

Interesting!

I’m not sure why this target hasn’t been picked up by ci.guix.  (gnu ci)
calls ‘targets’, which returns it.  Weird.

> ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI

It’s not clear how long support for this ABI will live on in the
toolchain…

Cheers,
Ludo’.




      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-01-08 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-02  7:26 [bug#68202] [PATCH 0/5] Add support for x86_64-linux-gnux32 Efraim Flashner
2024-01-02  7:27 ` [bug#68202] [PATCH 1/5] gnu: " Efraim Flashner
2024-01-02  7:27 ` [bug#68202] [PATCH 2/5] gnu: Add target-x32? Efraim Flashner
2024-01-08  9:20   ` Simon Tournier
2024-01-08 10:05     ` Efraim Flashner
2024-01-02  7:27 ` [bug#68202] [PATCH 3/5] gnu: openssl: Fix building on x86_64-linux-gnux32 Efraim Flashner
2024-01-02  7:27 ` [bug#68202] [PATCH 4/5] gnu: gmp: " Efraim Flashner
2024-01-02  7:27 ` [bug#68202] [PATCH 5/5] gnu: libsigsegv: Fix building for x86_64-linux-gnux32 Efraim Flashner
2024-01-03  8:43   ` Mathieu Othacehe
2024-01-03  8:53     ` Efraim Flashner
2024-01-05 11:22 ` bug#68202: [PATCH 0/5] Add support " Efraim Flashner
2024-01-08 17:14 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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