On 05/10/2012 12:51 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2012 11:44:44 -0500 > Matyas Selmeci <mat...@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 == Fedora Project -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
