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GCC Developers Consider Deprecating ARM64 ILP32 Support


ARM64 ILP32 is the Armv8 architecture with a 32-bit ABI rather than 64-bit -- akin to the 'x32' x86 effort that never really took off on Linux

But years later and little use, GCC developers are consider deprecating ILP32 support ahead of its eventual removal. Wilco Dijkstra of Arm laid out the proposal this week to deprecate ARM64 ILP32 support within the GCC compiler so that it can be removed in a future release. However, that is just a low priority passion project and isn't clear if/when it will ultimately materialize.

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