Re: [PATCH] support for the x32 architecture

Mattia Rizzolo <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:54:46 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.video.xine.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 03:59:23PM +0200, Torsten Jager wrote:
> This looks worse than it is, but I found 3 more candidates - see my
> patch. I hope gcc understands that "q" hack (eg "%1" -> "%edx" and
> "%q1" -> "%rdx"). I mean the reverse action like "b" ("%b1" -> "%dl")
> does work...

mhh, what patch do you mean?  I see nothing attached to your mail, and
also nothing on the repository.

> > I don't know xine-lib, I'm only barely interested in it is in the build
> > dependency chain of a package I care about :)
> 
> Who the f**k is still using xine in other projects ;-/ ?
> No, honestly, I would like to know after all those years
> of near silence.

openscenegraph (http://www.openscenegraph.org/) has a direct dependency
on xine, at least in Debian (no idea whether it's an optional dependency
or something).

> > So I'm probably not going to update it to the newer version, mostly
> > of accidentally breaking something…
> 
> Breaking what exactly ?

No idea, that's why I fear of breaking it :)

> > BTW, for testing: getting a debian chroot for it is as easy as running
> > `debootstrap --arch=x32 unstable target http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports`
> > you only need to add syscall.x32=y to your kernel options (assuming your
> > kernel is built with the needed support).
> 
> Unfortunately, all my installed kernels are fairly old, and never heard
> of that weird x32 thing.

heh.  (also, you need to be running a x86-64 kernel of course)

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