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anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes:
> x32 was made exactly for people in your situation, but you and others
> in that situation continue to use IA-32 or 64-bit AMD64 instead of x32.

I'm still confused: are you saying that when I install 32-bit Debian
(i686) on an amd64 machine these days, it's using a 64-bit ABI?  I
really should know, but I don't.  I know that the actual "i686" and
several generations after it were 32-bit machines.