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by comex 2377 days ago
No, that’s “x32”. “x86_32” is not an official name for anything, but based on the contents of the post, I believe Andy Lutomirski is using it to refer to 32-bit x86, aka i386.
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rurban 2377 days ago
And I believe he meant i686. Latest Intel CPU's with 32bit pointers.
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the8472 2377 days ago
x86-64 procesors can generally be run in IA32 compatibility mode. And intel still makes some IA32-only chips for embedded.
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