On Monday, July 23, 2012 11:53:01 AM UTC-4, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > > On 23 July 2012 16:40, tvn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > That's what I mean: my Debian OS is *NOT* 64 bit -- uname -a *DOES NOT* > > tell you about the OS but rather the capability of the machine hardware. > > > I don't know how uname is implemented in Linux, but according to > POSIX, the -m option gives the hardware. The -a option specifies > several options, including the -m. So it should give the hardware, and > not the software > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/uname.html > > Yes, the -m option gives the machine capability. So in my case, it is complete correct: arc is 64 bit (even though the installed os is 32 bit). It makes sense because we can run 32 bit software on 64 bit hardware just fine.
> > But I don't know if that's the case in practice. Linux is not Unix. > > > Dave > -- -- To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
