> Well, not totally. There is the posiblity that the Intel engineers
> offered us for addressing more than one single 32 bit space:
> segmentation.
Ugly as shit... and I'm not sure it will work on pre P6 cores
properly.
Anyhow, the 32-bit linux word isn't just Intel, we have ARM, 68k,
PPC, Sparc32, and the beginnings of MIPS.
Any `hack' to make stuff work for >32-bits should be as arch.
independent as possible.
-cw
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