Re: rawhide report: 20050205 changes

[Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>]

Once upon a time, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv redhat com> said:
> > coreutils-5.2.1-38
> > ------------------
> > * Fri Feb 04 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh redhat com> 5.2.1-38
> > - Special case for ia32e in uname (bug #145266).
> 
> this is wrong. Very wrong. 
> uname should report x86_64 for both AMD and Intel 64 bit x64 machines.
> The architecture is x86_64. No ifs or buts.

I'm not sure what the special case is, but the implementations are
somewhat different.  Why shouldn't that be like:

kosh:38:~$ uname -p
athlon
kosh:39:~$ uname -m
i686
kosh:40:~$ uname -i
i386

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Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>
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