Re: [gentoo-user] x32 ABI

2012-07-30 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:40:50AM -0500, Alecks Gates wrote > What are the benefits and drawbacks of using the x32 ABI, other than > the obvious "experimental" cautions? I currently do not have a > computer with more than 4GB of ram, and one only has 2GB (used as a > media center). In theory,

Re: [gentoo-user] x32 ABI

2012-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 30. Juli 2012, 11:40:50 schrieb Alecks Gates: > After a recent update to binutils 2.22 I started to look into the x32 > ABI support. It looks very interesting and I am thinking about > installing it via the experimental stage3[1], but I have some > questions to ask first. > > What are

Re: [gentoo-user] x32 ABI

2012-07-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:40:50 -0500 Alecks Gates wrote: > After a recent update to binutils 2.22 I started to look into the x32 > ABI support. It looks very interesting and I am thinking about > installing it via the experimental stage3[1], but I have some > questions to ask first. > > What are

[gentoo-user] x32 ABI

2012-07-30 Thread Alecks Gates
After a recent update to binutils 2.22 I started to look into the x32 ABI support. It looks very interesting and I am thinking about installing it via the experimental stage3[1], but I have some questions to ask first. What are the benefits and drawbacks of using the x32 ABI, other than the obvio