[Lguest] [patch] u32 pointer nightmare .....

Jes Sorensen jes at sgi.com
Fri Aug 31 22:25:38 EST 2007


Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Jes Sorensen wrote:
> That's the problem. If you compile it on a 32 bit userspace it will be 4 
> byte longs, although the underlining kernel will be 8 byte longs.  Also, 
> I'd love to support 32 bit guests on a 64 bit host.  But that's in the 
> future.

Well it would be easier to support loading 32 bit guests with a 64 bit
loader than the other way round.

I think the lguest loader is a special app and requiring that one app to
be 64 bit is fair. Users can always link it statically if they don't
want to install a 64 bit runtime.

Cheers
Jes





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