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Re:Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD by my123 on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @09:55AM (#39442020)
Rosetta supports 32-bit code execution via a very basic (segment-level) facility, designed for use by Wine.
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Re:Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD by jsheard on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @10:17AM (#39442277)
TIL. I'm surprised they went out of their way to accomodate emulating 32-bit Windows apps, when they cut off 32-bit Mac apps completely.
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Re:Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD by plorkyeran on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:00PM (#39443687)
Dropping 32-bit macOS apps let them drop the second copy of every system library, and possibly even more importantly, support for the old obj-c runtime that was weird and different from the runtime used on every other platform. Supporting 32-bit wine is a much smaller burden.
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Re:Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD by MBCook on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @01:02PM (#39444522)
Which is especially useful on phones that are much more memory constrained than desktops.
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