Building mainline and 4.2 on Debian/amd64

[Toon Moene]

Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Andrew Pinski:
> 
>> Actually it brings up an even more important thing, distros that don't
>> include a 32bit user land is really just broken.
> 
> Are they?  I haven't run into problems yet.
> 
> (And pretty please, I misread the documentation.  It does *not* state
> that amd64 is not a multilib target.  Sorry about that.)

I believe the OpenOffice Team had to do some rewriting because they 
assumed 32-bit ints/pointers, but that's about it.

If your bread and butter is Fortran programming, you don't even *know* 
that the pointers are twice the size on AMD64.

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