Warning on Alpha Linux

[Marcus Meissner]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 11:37:12PM -0700, Steven Edwards wrote:
> --- Todd Vierling <tv at pobox.com> wrote:
> > You should be aware that NT on Alpha was *NOT* a LP64 operating system
> > (whereas Windows on IA64 is indeed LP64), and I'm presuming that the
> > "alpha-pe" is targeting the classical NT/Alpha configuration.  The ARC BIOS
> > that was used to load NT created a memory map that simulated a 32-bit memory
> > space, thus essentially making an Alpha behave much like an x86 -- well,
> > sort of.
> > 
> > A Wine compiled as Win64 will likely not be able to run Alpha NT binaries.
> > However, it might work reasonably well to compile apps with Winelib.
> 
> I dont really care so much about being compatible with Alpha NT stuff. I know Marcus broke the NT
> PPC compatiblity stuff for his Winelib port so I think its a non-issue for anyone here. 

Side note:
	The ABI is broken just for 1 register (TEB), since it is used by the
	Linux/PPC ABI.

Ciao, Marcus