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Re:Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026 by nisegami on Monday September 08, 2025 @01:58PM (#45171574)
I consider it unlikely, but perhaps there's some instructions that don't have a practical polyfill for x86?
Re:Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026 by PhilipRoman on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:39PM (#45173670)
The only thing that comes to mind is some form of atomic instructions that need to interact with other code in well defined ways. I don't see how you could polyfill cmpxchg16b for example.