Re: 32bit system on 64bit kernel

[Miles Bader]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> So I wonder what is going on with the amdx86-64 configuration:
> why someone else expected it to have 64-bit longs, while Stefan's
> machine uses 32-bit longs.

I think because he's using a 64-bit kernel, but 32-bit libraries etc (so
programs like Emacs use a 32-bit ABI) -- and "uname" reports information
from the kernel.

I'd think in general it's possible simply override configure's choice of
architecture (so that it doesn't use uname) by explicitly specifying the
architecure on the configure command line.  [Emacs' configure.in also
seems to call uname directly in several places, but not apparently for
the x86-64 case.]

-Miles

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