Post #3435334
2026-06-27 21:02 UTC
observing how many i386 binaries are still running on my Windows system and sort of gobsmacked at how there is still not a fat binary format for this platform, other than Arm64X which I believe is the output of a profane ritual
like I understand that PE is not really amenable to this, and it would be preferable to have introduced an alternative 20 years ago, but the second-best time to publish such a format is today
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@jnadeau@tech.lgbt 2026-06-27 21:05
however I am absolutely enchanted by this diagram https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/arm64x-pe
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@joe@f.duriansoftware.com 2026-06-28 02:02
@jnadeau@tech.lgbt the Microsoft house style for shifting architectures is to ship the userland in the native architecture only and give the non-native slices a pile of thunks into the native implementation, assuming that x86 Win32 binaries will never be updated