On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 02:52:43AM -0700, John M. Harris Jr. wrote:
While I don't have statistics on that, all of the anecdotal
evidence supports
that vendors are still "supporting" 32 bit software. In fact, nearly all
proprietary software for RHEL, for example, is 32 bit.
The EDA tools I'm forced to use dropped support for 32-bit systems in
2015. Even before that, I recall my own testing showing that the 64-bit
versions were noticably faster, thanks to architectural improvements
inherent to x86_64.
That's now how vulnerabilities work, and just being 64 bit
doesn't solve any
security issue.
All else being equal, it allows ASLR to be considerably more effective.
- Solomon
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