Yea, but those platforms were not 64bit
64 bit generally adds about 20% to the size of the executables and programs as t to last on x86, so it's not that big of a change.
Switch to an ILP32 ABI and you get a lot of that space back
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64 bit generally adds about 20% to the size of the executables and programs as t to last on x86, so it's not that big of a change.