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SubjectRe: Pure 64 bootloaders
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> > The reverse -- two 64-bit formats and one 32-bit one. And don't forget
> > to multiply by two endiannesses. ;-)
>
> I thought it was 32bit old, 32bit new (for using 32bit pointers on a 64bit
> cpu) and 64bit. At least the names I have seen were 32o, 32n, 64.

Well, n32 requires a 64-bit CPU and uses 64-bit registers. For C/C++
64-bit registers can be referred to with the "long long" types; I can't
comment ABIs for other languages. Pointers are indeed 32-bit. Therefore
for everything except ELF loaders the format can be considered 64-bit.

Maciej
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