Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux 32 bit support days are numbered Date: 3 Sep 2025 04:37:21 GMT Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <10973al$j7f5$1@dont-email.me> <10980t8$rcuc$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 3tOFUWVtAATUY01LhPx06wL++3UI9UMxilCDwoIGux8feiR9A1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:iU/XUNnBO9R7Foz0qvzZOZqM/wg= sha256:GLKhbfnIHOHa6R+4tJagmp9vYasafxU8Uc3LYthWjio= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:73122 On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 00:08:08 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 15:43:17 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote: > >> The way I read it, the day may soon come 32 bit Linux will be >> sun-setted. I know if I was maintaining Linux I would also be looking >> to remove all 32 bit support. *But* as a user I will be a bit sad to >> see it go. > > I wonder if big-endian support is not similarly on its last legs. Even > architectures that started out firmly big-endian eventually gave in and > added little-endian operation modes. I doubt network byte order will go away anytime soon. We use ONC RPC with XDR for serialization. It made sense when the system ran under AIX on RS/6000 boxes. When the sites switched to Windows desktops and servers the double reordering made much less sense.