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In message <is0r02$ds$1@dont-email.me>, Joshua Cranmer wrote:

> Heck, even porting 32-bit code to a 64-bit target of an otherwise
> identical system is often nontrivial for any decently sized project.

“Decently sized” like the Linux kernel? Which is portable across something 
like two dozen different architectures, both 32-bit and 64-bit?