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[PATCH 0/5] Add support for x86_64-linux-gnux32 |
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Tue, 2 Jan 2024 09:26:13 +0200 |
I was reminded recently about a comment I made back in February 2017
about getting guix support for x32, aka x86_64-linux-gnux32, aka
x86_64-linux but with 32-bit data structures. The idea was that by
using 32-bit pointers there'd be a not insignificant speed-up of code
execution¹. I am uncertain how true this is, or which packages would
really benefit from this.
Interestingly,
%glibc-cross-x86_64-linux-gnux32-2.35/lib/ld-linux-x32.so.2 --help
suggests that it still benefits from our --tune parameters, which is not
the case for i686-linux's ld-linux.so.2.
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI
Efraim Flashner (5):
gnu: Add support for x86_64-linux-gnux32.
gnu: Add target-x32?.
gnu: openssl: Fix building on x86_64-linux-gnux32.
gnu: gmp: Fix building on x86_64-linux-gnux32.
gnu: libsigsegv: Fix building for x86_64-linux-gnux32.
gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm | 5 ++++-
gnu/packages/gcc.scm | 5 ++++-
gnu/packages/libsigsegv.scm | 33 +++++++++++++++++----------------
gnu/packages/multiprecision.scm | 4 +++-
gnu/packages/tls.scm | 4 +++-
guix/platforms/x86.scm | 10 ++++++++++
guix/utils.scm | 12 +++++++++++-
7 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
base-commit: f2102cb5b9239be2ed2023b908b726af542e0124
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Re: [PATCH 0/5] Add support for x86_64-linux-gnux32 |
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Fri, 5 Jan 2024 13:22:12 +0200 |
Patches pushed, with the change to libsigsegv to patch on all
cross-builds.
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