UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Also, 64-bit SPARC and AMD are known to be
> > designated as "sparcv9" and "amd64". What will be the
> > formal designation of a 64-bit PPC CPU on Solaris?
> >
> > See above
>
> BTW, as a general question, is there a reliable way to detemine the "mapping"
> between an ISA and her corresponding 64-bit counterpart, as in:
>
> i386 -> amd64
> sparc -> sparcv9
> ppc -> ppc64
THere is none and even the uname(1) fields are unreliable if
you compare different platforms.
This is something that makes it hard to write a platform independent
makefilesystem like the "Schily makefiles".
Jörg
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