Re: [gentoo-user] 32BIT/64BIT

2005-01-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 29 January 2005 00:30, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 07:09, William Kenworthy wrote: On a local lug, a statement was made that not a lot of 64 bit software is available for the amd chips yet. With gentoo at least, isnt this largely untrue: if you have the arch

Re: [gentoo-user] 32BIT/64BIT

2005-01-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 29 January 2005 02:21 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 00:30, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 07:09, William Kenworthy wrote: On a local lug, a statement was made that not a lot of 64 bit software is available for the amd chips yet.

Re: [gentoo-user] 32BIT/64BIT

2005-01-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 29 January 2005 14:06, Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 02:21 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip: way too much info on problems converting to 64-bit.] I bow in your general direction... :') Sorry, I'm a programmer / standards advocate first, and a gentoo /

Re: [gentoo-user] 32BIT/64BIT

2005-01-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 29 January 2005 22:51, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 14:06, Jerry McBride wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 02:21 pm, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip: way too much info on problems converting to 64-bit.] I bow in your general direction... :')

[gentoo-user] 32BIT/64BIT

2005-01-28 Thread William Kenworthy
On a local lug, a statement was made that not a lot of 64 bit software is available for the amd chips yet. With gentoo at least, isnt this largely untrue: if you have the arch set correctly, are you not building 64 bit software, and only 32 bit where 32 bit specific instructions are specified???

Re: [gentoo-user] 32BIT/64BIT

2005-01-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 29 January 2005 07:09, William Kenworthy wrote: On a local lug, a statement was made that not a lot of 64 bit software is available for the amd chips yet. With gentoo at least, isnt this largely untrue: if you have the arch set correctly, are you not building 64 bit software, and

Re: [gentoo-user] 32BIT/64BIT

2005-01-28 Thread Kashani
William Kenworthy wrote: On a local lug, a statement was made that not a lot of 64 bit software is available for the amd chips yet. With gentoo at least, isnt this largely untrue: if you have the arch set correctly, are you not building 64 bit software, and only 32 bit where 32 bit specific