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Date:      Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:04:25 -0400
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        Depo Catcher <depocatcher@gmail.com>
Cc:        Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: amd64
Message-ID:  <20100810130425.GA98500@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4C60B259.7020609@gmail.com>
References:  <4C6062D3.1090800@nagual.nl> <20100809223512.b94b1bea.freebsd@edvax.de> <19552.28607.763187.953932@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4C60B259.7020609@gmail.com>

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On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:58:49PM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote:

> 
> 
> 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?

Because that is what you installed and booted.  The chip doesn't
matter - built by AMD or Intell.   What matters is the type of chip.

////jerry

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