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Re: cc -m32 support



matthew green wrote:
>    Does this extend to emulations too?  The ability to run 32bit linux
>    applications on 64bit platforms would be very cool :)
> this has nothing to do with emulations, beyond the syscalls
> translation in compat_netbsd32().  the path-name translation
> there can infact be removed with the new work, it is no
> longer necessary.
> 
> what you want is in sys/compat/linux32 and already exists
> but i don't know what the status of it is.

It is functional enough to run Sun J2SE 6.0 for Linux i386 on amd64.
Acrobat Reader 7 also works; 8 requires something else (iirc
thread-local storage support? NPTL?).

Cheers,
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        Thomas E. Spanjaard
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