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Author	pitrou
Recipients	brian.curtin, lemburg, pitrou
Date	2010-02-06.00:32:31
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> 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'... You're right. There doesn't seem to be much consistency accross platforms. > Note that 'x86_64' is just a 'x86' compatible processor with > the AMD 64-bit extensions, so 'x86' is a superset of 'x86_64'. Oops, indeed.

> 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'...

You're right. There doesn't seem to be much consistency accross
platforms.

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

Oops, indeed.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2010-02-06 00:32:33	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, lemburg, brian.curtin
2010-02-06 00:32:32	pitrou	link	issue7860 messages
2010-02-06 00:32:31	pitrou	create