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Author	lemburg
Recipients	brian.curtin, lemburg, pitrou
Date	2010-02-05.23:56:21
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Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment: > > The test could simply check that platform.machine() never returns "x86" when sys.maxsize is greater than 2**32. > (and it would even be platform-agnostic) I'm not sure what such a test would prove, e.g. on 64-bit Mac OS X, platform.machine() return 'i386'. That could be mapped to 'x86'... Note that 'x86_64' is just a 'x86' compatible processor with the AMD 64-bit extensions, so 'x86' is a superset of 'x86_64'.

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> 
> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou@free.fr> added the comment:
> 
> The test could simply check that platform.machine() never returns "x86" when sys.maxsize is greater than 2**32.
> (and it would even be platform-agnostic)

I'm not sure what such a test would prove, e.g. on 64-bit Mac OS X,
platform.machine() return 'i386'. That could be mapped to 'x86'...

Note that 'x86_64' is just a 'x86' compatible processor with
the AMD 64-bit extensions, so 'x86' is a superset of 'x86_64'.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010-02-05 23:56:23	lemburg	set	recipients: + lemburg, pitrou, brian.curtin
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2010-02-05 23:56:21	lemburg	create