On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 11:44:26PM -0500, Daniel Clark wrote: > 2012/1/15 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <vi...@viric.name> > > > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:04:59PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > > I was just wondering, if there was then any n64 distro out there... > > > To the extent I've look, seems not, :-) > > > > Well, the fuloongs I have don't need more virtual addresses (1GB of RAM, I > > won't > > run programs that want 6GB virtual addresses, for example). > > > > I even was running for a while a 64-bit kernel with 32-bit OS where I had > > only > > some specific programs built for 64-bit - those who needed more virtual > > address space. > > > > Someone on Parabola Hackers (cc:ed, but please remove it when replying to > avoid cross-post issues) mentioned that n64 would be good (at least to have > available somewhere) so more virtual memory could be used - the use case he > gave was that compiling and debugging some things requires more RAM then > can be achieved with current hardware + n32-limited virtual memory. > > I think he actually had a chicken-and-egg scenario where he couldn't > compile 64-bit binutils because of memory limits.
Really? weird. The n32 binutils build perfect for me. Maybe there was some big leak in some program he used to build the toolchain. I don't think binutils should need more than 32-bit virtual space, other than in case of a bug. On the other hand, I remember how the boost 'jam' program needs more than 2GB in x86_64... And recently, the firefox people had problems building firefox in a 32-bit address space. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Firefox-Source-Code-Is-So-Big-It-Hit-the-32-Bit-Virtual-Address-Space-Limit-240112.shtml Regards, Lluís. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "loongson-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to loongson-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to loongson-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/loongson-dev?hl=en.
