Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Michael Meissner Message-ID: <20000308230014.18478@cse.cygnus.com> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 23:00:14 -0500 To: DJ Delorie Cc: Brendan.Simon@ctam.com.au, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: cygwin-inst-20000304 query References: <38C441C9.D83FB437@ctam.com.au> <200003070146.UAA19157@envy.delorie.com> <38C5820D.23D114E1@ctam.com.au> <200003080020.TAA26089@envy.delorie.com> <38C70079.FCDADBF4@ctam.com.au> <200003090308.WAA29406@envy.delorie.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <200003090308.WAA29406@envy.delorie.com>; from DJ Delorie on Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:08:13PM -0500 On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:08:13PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > If they are just names that are independent of architecture, then > > why is there any need to mention the architecture ? > > Well, so you can tell the difference between those and, say, > ppc-pc-cygwin. Or, i86-pc-cygwin (if a 16-bit version were even > possible). > > > Furthermore, what is the point of changing the name of the > > architecture if there is no difference ? > > Marketing. People don't like buying software for "older" computers. > Plus, "uname" returns the actual cpu, and config.guess uses that, so > if you built cygwin on a 486, it would default to i486-pc-cygwin > because that's what you built it on. We all have 686's so that's our > default. It does mean that by default a i686-pc-cygwin compiler will optimize for a i686 (aka, pentium-II and pentium-III), but it won't generate any instructions that aren't common across the x86 architecture (ie, cmov and fcmov). -- Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company. PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA Work: meissner@redhat.com phone: +1 978-486-9304 Non-work: meissner@spectacle-pond.org fax: +1 978-692-4482 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com