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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
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Subject: Re: MACHINE vs. MACHINE_ARCH 
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
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Nate Williams writes:
> > > I thought it was silly when NetBSD did it initially, and it's no less
> > > silly now.
> > 
> > MACHINE_ARCH and MACHINE aren't the same thing.
> 
> How are they different?

You have to be able to distinguish between classes (m68k or powerpc)
and specific instances (amigas & old macs, powermacs or beboxes).

We've got something like 20 different machine types we run on, but
only about seven different kinds of processors (mips, ns32k, i386, m68k,
vax, powerpc, sparc). Thus, MACHINE vs. MACHINE_ARCH.


Perry

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