Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: generating code to run multiple targets Message-ID: <178@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 21 Apr 89 08:37:42 GMT References: <19190@adm.BRL.MIL> <1024@quintus.UUCP> <11319@tekecs.GWD.TEK.COM> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 13 In-reply-to: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) In article <11319@tekecs.GWD.TEK.COM>, andrew@frip (Andrew Klossner) writes: >But this mechanism allows only one machine type. >On a Sun-3, for example, I would expect both 'sun' and 'm68k' to be true. In future SunOS releases (4.0.3?) the command /bin/arch has a '-k' option to indicate the type of kernal. While the Sun 4/110 and Sparkstation are both sparc-based, the kernals (e.g. virtual memory) are very different. -- Bruce G. Barnett a.k.a. uunet!steinmetz!barnett,