Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:05:34 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Kernel builds broken? Message-ID: <20011218090534.F73333@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011217130941.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 01:09:41PM -0800 References: <20011217161037.F39205@locore.ca> <XFMail.011217130941.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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As John Baldwin wrote: > >> Why is _MACHINE_ARCH == i386 on an Alpha system? > > > > Maybe because its spelt MACHINE_ARCH? Btw., then it wouldn't work on IA32 (since the code is opted-in, not opted-out). > > As I said, the definition for the machine type is in the compiler specs > > and is __<machine>__. > > Yes, we use __<machine>__ all over the kernel. The fd(4) driver should do the > same. OK. When i last looked, i didn't find many examples, so i was in the wrong impression that __i386__ would refer to the host CPU. I'll change it then. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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