--- Emmanuel Durin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Athlon64 processors can execute 32 bits
> instructions. But you can't
> use 32 bits executables with 64 bits libraries (or
> contrary), and this
> will append while recompiling your system (when a
> library used by
> emerge or gcc will be recompiled), so it should fail
> at any time. I
> think it can be done, respecting a certain order and
> maintaining
> executables links to librairies by hand. Already
> it's not really
> recommended to modify the CHOST variable without
> starting with a stage

This could be done if you were to untar an AMD64 stage
tarball on top of your 32 bit system.  You would need
an x86_64  kernel (like the one on the install cd).  I
don't recommend this and doubt anyone else would. ;-)


                
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