Re:Future of 32-bit platform support in FreeBSD
by cesarb on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @10:09AM
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> At one point 16 bits were universal, and then 32 bits came along and broke everything.
That's not an issue in mainstream Linux, since 16-bit Linux (ELKS) never caught on. Other than ELKS and perhaps some new experimental stuff, since its first release Linux always had long and pointer with the same size.
That's not an issue in mainstream Linux, since 16-bit Linux (ELKS) never caught on. Other than ELKS and perhaps some new experimental stuff, since its first release Linux always had long and pointer with the same size.