On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 21:19:14 +1030 Simon Lees <si...@simotek.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 01/14/2016 09:02 PM, Stefan Schmidt wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > We are going to remove the x32 builds from our Jenkins setup. This
> > ABI never really got flying for any users of EFL I heard about.
> > Removing the builds and the actual VM for it will free up resources
> > we can user for other tasks. If you have good arguments for us
> > keeping this speak up now as we are going to remove it next week. I
> > already disabled the related builds to fade it out.
> >
> > Some folks are confused by the x32 name. It is _not_ the x86 32 bit
> > architecture you still might run. We are still supporting this one.
> > x32 is an ABI to use some benefits of the x86_64 architecture while
> > avoiding the 64bit pointer penalty.
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI
> >
> > regards
> > Stefan Schmidt
> >
> As a point of reference openSUSE has already dropped both x32 (Never 
> took off) and x86 32bit, 32bit arm is obviously still around.

Until now I had never even heard of x32.  lol

I guess I wont miss it.  I do use x86 32 bit builds though.

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