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Re:Demoting i686-PC-windows-gnu to Tier 2 by flohofwoe on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @02:42AM (#44104465)
The upside is 32-bit pointers, but the downside is the small register set of x86. Best would be 64-bit ISA with 32-bit pointers, but I don't know if Windows supports such a mode.
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Re:Demoting i686-PC-windows-gnu to Tier 2 by kelnos on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @02:47AM (#44104492)
That mode is called "x32", and Windows doesn't support it. Linux does, but it's not particularly popular, and I believe many distros that used to support it have dropped such support.
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