Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Rubin Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Was just wondering when people started using C to write forth languages and not assembly? Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 10:07:42 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: <87k2ioejz5.fsf@jester.gateway.pace.com> References: <622db793-14c4-48e5-a732-686c0b759db5@googlegroups.com> <2016May19.170745@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2016May20.144448@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <75mdnU18NrINvqLKnZ2dnUU7-N_NnZ2d@supernews.com> <2016May20.170203@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <2016May20.185250@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="52eac348160ce62b68e4635eee7cc854"; logging-data="12413"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/4vFr5yLAF0JXD9qJLsi5S" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1hbDtUnEuKnzhWxOT/AMDfd6Gwc= sha1:PIy2tq8cptqf6b76qtUM5aEdO5Y= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:47353 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) writes: > At the time when they introduced it (in 2011), AMD64 was widely > available, so an AMD64-specific 32-bit ABI made much more sense. It > still did not catch on. I'm a little bit confused by this terminology and may be thinking of the wrong thing. But I can say for sure there are millions of 32-bit x86 Linux systems in use today and I run a dozen or so of them myself. The underlying hardware is generally amd64, but 32-bit Linux is less memory hungry, so I use it in smaller systems where there is no need to address more than 2GB of ram, and the speed benefits of 64-bit arithmetic aren't important.