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

[Glauber de Oliveira Costa]

On 8/31/07, Jes Sorensen <jes at sgi.com> wrote:
> 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.

This is pretty much okay to me.

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