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Date:      Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:02:53 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: A stupid 64bit question ... but ...
Message-ID:  <20051205030253.GC62285@dragon.NUXI.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051204184826.D1077@ganymede.hub.org>
References:  <20051204184826.D1077@ganymede.hub.org>

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On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 06:50:55PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
> I recently bought a new Intel Xeon server, and when I put it together, I 
> didn't realize that the newer Xeon's were 64bit ... now, I've just built 
> perl 5.8.7, and its reporting:
> 
> =================
> # perl -v
> This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i386-freebsd-64int
..
> I realize that this  may be a stupid question, but am I correct in that 
> *this* is a 64bit machine, and I should be enabling the AMD64 stuff on 
> her?

Perl won't be reporting a 64-bit capable machine, when running a 32-bit
OS.  Look in /var/run/dmesg for 'AMD Features' to report 'LM' (long
mode).
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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