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Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl>,
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Subject: Re: amd64
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On 8/9/2010 4:14 PM, Robert Huff wrote:
> Polytropon writes:
>
>    
>>   >    I've installed FreeBSD-amd64. It runs very well. The packages I fetch
>>   >  are amd64 too, but what about the ports I compile myself? Are those
>>   >  amd64 too?
>>
>>   Yes, as your compiler infrastructure and target platform
>>   is amd64, and so is the resulting binary code.
>>      

How does it know your are on amd64?  gcc auto detect of CPU?