Gnumeric 0.67

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Tue Feb 5 07:44:40 EST 2008


On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:33:43 -0800
"Kristian Erik Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now, most recent 64-bit distros include 32-bit glibc and other libs
> and run 32-bit executables, so the architecture would not matter.  I
> have only tried this with x86-32 -> x86-64, and never had to touch an
> IA64 box, so I am not sure about that :-(  Obviously, going from PPC32
> -> IA64 would definitely not work, but I still wonder if you could
> build a static binary on x86-32 without using the IA64 extensions and
> run it.  Hrmm, next time I get my hands on one I will try (I am IA64
> naive)...

IA64 is a 64-bit architecture unrelated and incompatible with the x86
architecture. it has 128 integer and 128 floating point registers as
well as a full 64-bit linear addressing capability. 

But, I do have a couple of x86-64 servers, so I might just try using
those. 
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