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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@imgtec.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, Jan Beulich wrote:

> x86-64 has the x32 sub-mode, but that is (bogusly imo) indicated
> by using a 32-bit ELF instead of the default 64-bit ELF one.

 FWIW I find the choice of ELF32 correct for an ABI (such as the x86-64 
target's x32 ABI I believe is) that has a 32-bit pointer size, as all ELF 
structures are then consistently 32-bit as well; and as a side effect you 
also have no technical means to request an invalid address space mapping.  
The same choice has been also earlier made for the MIPS target's n32 ABI.

  Maciej