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Date:      Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:42:49 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling@des.no, =?utf-8?Q?Sm=C3=B8=40freebsd=2Eo?=@des.no, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, =?us-ascii?Q?=3D=3FISO-8859-1=3FQ=3Frg?=@des.no, Jason Evans <jasone@freebsd.org>, ?= Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>
Subject:   Re: ELF dynamic loader name
Message-ID:  <86ejcu7yzq.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20080107074209.5c20f083@duncan.reilly.home> (Andrew Reilly's message of "Mon\, 7 Jan 2008 07\:42\:09 %2B1100")
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Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org> writes:
> Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> writes:
> > what Apple has is one file, that will run the appropiate binary if
> > run on an i386 or a ppc, not 2 different files - universal binary -
> > not rosetta.
> Sure, but that's got a bunch of different driving factors.  I
> don't know, for example, whether you can build a four-way
> executable (ia32, x86_64, ppc, ppc64).  Well, you probably can,
> but I'd be a bit surprised if anyone has.  FreeBSD supports even
> more architectures: it just doesn't scale.

Two-way i386 + amd64 executables would be very useful, since they can
run on the same hardware with just a change of kernel.

DES
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