<story><title>Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code</title><url>https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/CALCETrW1z0gCLFJz-1Jwj_wcT3+axXkP_wOCxY8JkbSLzV80GA@mail.gmail.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>geofft</author><text>Relatedly, Ubuntu no longer builds for i386 as a complete architecture: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lists.ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;ubuntu-devel-announce&amp;#x2F;2019-June&amp;#x2F;001261.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;lists.ubuntu.com&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;ubuntu-devel-announce&amp;#x2F;2019...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are still building i386 packages for use on 64-bit kernels, for the sake of precompiled 32-bit software (games etc). That&amp;#x27;s scenario B from Simon McVittie&amp;#x27;s reply in this thread, and it sounds like that&amp;#x27;s not affected.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lots of bugs in 32-bit x86 Linux entry code</title><url>https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/CALCETrW1z0gCLFJz-1Jwj_wcT3+axXkP_wOCxY8JkbSLzV80GA@mail.gmail.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jhoechtl</author><text>Hah!&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; And the developers in question should have an
appropriate degree of nostalgic adoration of segments, gates, and
other delights from the i386 era.</text></comment>