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Authored by trasz on Jun 12 2020, 8:24 PM.
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Make Linux uname(2) return x86_64 to 32-bit apps.
This fixes PR 240432.

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trasz requested review of this revision.Jun 12 2020, 8:24 PM

Curious, what Linux reports for arm 32bit binaries on arm64 host ?

lazytwitter turned up https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/136407/is-my-linux-arm-32-or-64-bit for me,

On a 64-bit processor, you'd see a string starting with armv8 (or above) if the uname process itself is a 32-bit process, or aarch64 if it's a 64-bit process.

https://twitter.com/agentdero/status/1271570495041761281
looks like it's actually aarch64 for 32-bit uname on 64-bit kernel

We also need to know what's being returned by getauxval. You can use https://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/u.c to check it.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jun 14 2020, 10:22 PM