variant or platform

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Jul 15, 2007, at 3:11 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Jul 15, 2007, at 10:03, Yves de Champlain wrote:
>
>>>> Mmm i386 is for intel, sure.  But x86 targets a wider set of  
>>>> platforms (intel and AMD).  So I always saw i386 as a subset of  
>>>> x86.
>>>>
>>>> Am I far off ?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 11, 2007, at 00:26, Yves de Champlain wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just saw "platform intel"  Does that really work ?
>>>
>>>
>>> I really have no idea about "x86" or "platform intel". Where is  
>>> the code in base that autoselects platforms? We could look there  
>>> to see what it supports.
>>
>> it fetches uname, so whatever comes out is good
>
> Ah. Well, uname -a shows i386 on my MacBook Pro with Mac OS X, but  
> I don't know what it outputs on all other operating systems on all  
> other computers. So what do we do now?


	Part of the code that sets the platform name is in base/src/port1.0/ 
portmain.tcl, but I have to admit I don't remember the original  
question of this post in order to provide a helpful answer :-S What  
is it that we're trying to agree on? An Intel Mac appropriate  
platform name? intel? i386? something else?

	Regards,...


-jmpp