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[LIU Qi <liuqi82@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 04:52:37PM +1200, Kai-Cheung Leung wrote:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > I am working on concurrent programming, and have seen many cases where
 > memory well exceeding 4GB is needed for a single application.  So in
 > an OS with n32 userland and n64 kernel, in order to run that program,
 > do we just make an n64 version of the required libraries and then link
 > that application to these n64 libraries?  Is this all it takes to run
 > that particular n64 program?
 > 
 > If so, then do you (and Michael) mean that for our Ubuntu Loongson
 > port, libraries can be n32-based, but all we need to do is to add n64
 > versions of:
 > - glibc
 > - blas and other maths / science related libraries
 > 
 > and initially we don't need to make *all* libraries available in n64
 > 
 > If I an correct, it looks attractive to me.
Yes, your understanding is right.

Regards,
Qi