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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by izacus on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:32AM (#15366165)
hmm, doesn't Linux have a mode where it keeps 32bit pointers even on x86_64? I remember reading about it.
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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by ant6n on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:35AM (#15366199)
x32 ABI. Although I've never heard of a Linux that's x32 only.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI

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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by giancarlostoro on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:19PM (#15367161)
According to another comment made recently Debian has such a flavor:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15366955

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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by ant6n on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:49PM (#15367463)
Neat! It seems the main drawback is that you only have 4GB of virtual memory. I wonder whether it would be possible to create some sort of hybrid that allows access to more memory. (himem? long-pointers? separating data/code/stack into different regions?)
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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by kasabali on Friday September 29, 2017 @09:28PM (#15370653)
last time I checked it was nothing more then a PoC. Firefox was missing.
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