site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 21:26, Brian Bechtel<brian.bechtel@gmail.com> wrote:

Arch and uname -p both return the processor family type, i386. (as opposed to ppc or arm.) I think the rationale was that too many scripts depend upon this behavior.

This actually doesn’t make a huge amount of sense: something like config.guess will return 'i386-apple-darwin10.0.1', despite the fact that gcc will be (by default) targeting x86_64; anything which relies on the knowledge that "i386" is by default entirely 32-bit will therefore break. In contrast, most other x86_64 systems tend to be set up such that x86_64 is reported as the “system” architecture (where the kernel architecture is pretty incidental), and so you have a triplet of, say, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. I’d be curious to know what would break if uname returned the user-space architecture (as targeted by the system compiler by default) rather than the kernel architecture. M. -- http://nevali.net _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com