Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: perfmon2 code review: 32-bit ABI on 64-bit OS | From | Bryan O'Sullivan <> | Date | Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:27:02 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 07:36 -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> Many 64-bit Linux kernel do support running 32-bit native applications. > That is the case on PPC64, MIPS64K, X86-64, for instance.
And sparc64 and s390.
> One could well > write a 32-bit monitoring tool on top of a 64-bit OS.
On some 64-bit arches (e.g. x86_64), most userspace code is 64-bit, while on others (e.g. powerpc), most is 32-bit. Reducing the number of things that a userspace tool or library writer can trip over seems like a good thing here, even if it slightly complicates perfmon's internals.
> Note that there are similar issues with the remapped sampling buffer. > There, you need to explicitly compile your tool with a special option > to force certain types to be 64-bit (size_t, void *).
It's pretty normal to just use 64-bit quantities in these cases, and cast appropriately.
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