Subject: Re: 32-bit packages
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.org>
From: None <sigsegv@rambler.ru>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 01/08/2005 04:18:44
Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 02:43:15PM +0000, sigsegv@rambler.ru wrote:
> 
>>Greetings, is it possible to build 32-bit software that runs with 64-bit 
>>kernel?
> 
> 
> Sure, see compat_netbsd32(8), maybe ignore the pkgsrc/emulators* references;
> you will get the idea what to do. It's easy.
> 
> Martin
> 

Just out of interest, is there a performance penalty on NetBSD when 
executing 32-bit binaries with 64-bit kernel, as opposed to native 
64-bit binaries? What about Solaris, does it use the same principles 
when executing 32-bit binaries?