On 05/10/2012 12:51 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
On Thu, 10 May 2012 11:44:44 -0500
Matyas Selmeci <matyas(a)cs.wisc.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm wondering about the meaning of the arch i386. Is it just a label,
> or are i386 packages still compiled to only use instructions that a
> 386 had? And if the latter, how come?
In any place I can think of you seeing this in current Fedora, it means
"32 bit".
Also, from an rpm target sense, it means "optimized to i386 only
instructions", which is why you will see our current Fedora RPMs say
"foo*.i686.rpm".
hth,
~tom
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