howdy, y'all ---
these may be stupid questions and, if so, i am prepared to slap my forehead
with the palm of my hand.
i recently acquired my first batch of intel cpus with 64_bit integer registers
[ celeron 440 ],
specifically for the 16 registers and the potential for a truly_gargantuan
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:51 PM, spellberg_robert email...@emailrob.com wrote:
q: if i install an amd64 version on an intel_64 platform,
am i restricted to 16 64_bit registers and 48_bit pointers or
can i compile for both cpu_models
[ perhaps, with nothing more
hmmm ..., you did not answer the question that i asked.
per your statement, on i386, amd64 or both ?
David Brodbeck wrote:
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:51 PM, spellberg_robert email...@emailrob.com wrote:
q:if i install an amd64 version on an intel_64 platform,
am i restricted to
On a 64-bit system, if you build a binary with the -m32 flag, it
should run on both i386 and x86-64 systems. A binary built with -m64
will only run on x86-64. Does that help?
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:45 PM, spellberg_robert email...@emailrob.com wrote:
hmmm ..., you did not answer the question
spellberg_robert wrote:
[snip]
consider a dvd_image [ to pick an approach ] of a release to be found on
ftp.freebsd.org.
q:if the release_name includes the string i386,
am i restricted to 8 32_bit registers and 32_bit pointers,
notwithstanding its installation
In the last episode (Oct 04), David Brodbeck said:
On a 64-bit system, if you build a binary with the -m32 flag, it
should run on both i386 and x86-64 systems. A binary built with -m64
will only run on x86-64. Does that help?
Actually, -m32 on amd64 won't generate usable binaries, since
aha !
this relates to what i found in machine/types.h,
on my existing i386 version of freebsd on my intel_64 hardware platform.
i will look into the questions archive.
meanwhile, back at the ranch,
does this mean that i need the amd64 version of freebsd to get the right
headers ?
Dan
well, i looked at questions back to the beginning of august.
on aug_09 i found a thread that suggests the following questions.
for a given release of freebsd,
q:is it that the version labeled i386 contains only 32_bit headers and
source,
which creates the 32_bit version of
In the last episode (Oct 05), spellberg_robert said:
well, i looked at questions back to the beginning of august.
on aug_09 i found a thread that suggests the following questions.
You might want to just use i386 and amd64 instead of making up your own
terminology (i_386, intel_64, amd_64,
