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title="NEW - sparc64 is not properly detected as 64 bit due to incorrect architecture mapping"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95432#c3">Comment # 3</a>
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title="NEW - sparc64 is not properly detected as 64 bit due to incorrect architecture mapping"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95432">bug 95432</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de" title="John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>"> <span class="fn">John Paul Adrian Glaubitz</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Arun Raghavan from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=95432#c1">comment #1</a>)
<span class="quote">> I'm wondering if we might break some other/older compiler with this change.
> Any way to verify this?</span >
Very unlikely. According to David Miller, the definition "sparc64" was never
valid [1].
For reference, David Miller has been the primary person behind the SPARC port
of the Linux kernel since the 90ies [2].
Cheers,
Adrian
<span class="quote">> [1] <a href="http://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc&m=146341133910751&w=2">http://marc.info/?l=linux-sparc&m=146341133910751&w=2</a>
> [2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Miller">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_S._Miller</a></span ></pre>
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