Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix PER_LINUX32 behaviour

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> 
> Interestingly, PER_LINUX32 has nothing whatsoever to do with whether a
> process is running in 32-bit or 64-bit mode.  In fact, the *only*
> thing that PER_LINUX32 affects is the machine name reported by uname.
> So you can have a 32-bit process without PER_LINUX32, and a 64-bit
> process with PER_LINUX32.

Ok, I stand corrected. I was assuming it got set automatically for 32-bit 
processes, without checking.

		Linus
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