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Date:      Tue, 2 May 2006 19:59:54 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>, stable@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cc can't build 32-bit executables on amd64
Message-ID:  <20060502095954.GA693@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060501220414.GA74865@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <200605011604.26507.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20060501212539.GA24193@regurgitate.ugcs.caltech.edu> <200605011739.02920.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20060501220414.GA74865@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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On Tue, 2006-May-02 00:04:14 +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
>On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:39:02PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
=2E..
>> create 32-bit executables. Thus created lame, for example (from the
>> audio/lame port) works and happily converts mp3 files (using
>> assembler-optimized routines available only for 32-bit i386).
>
>Lame compiles and runs just fine on amd64.

But probably not as fast since it's using a generic 'C' core instead
of a hand-tweaked assembler core.  I read Mikhail's comment as meaning
that it is possible to build non-trivial 32-bit executables on amd64,
there's just work still needed to make this work as a general case.

--=20
Peter Jeremy

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