Re: 64-bit and N32 kernel interfaces

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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> N32 supports saving and restoring 64-bit registers, which O32 doesn't -
> according to some comments in GCC, O32 is in fact incompatible with
> using 64-bit operations.

 But that old software wouldn't benefit as it didn't perform 64-bit
operations unless manually coded in software using narrower data types. 
There is no 64-bit C data type for o32 and long long is quite a recent
invention -- it didn't exist in the 80s or even early 90s. 

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