On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 16:04 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

> On Sun, Jan  2, 2011 at 08:58:03 -0500, Gaetan Nadon wrote:
> 
> > Using x86*64* rather than x86_64 is misleading to the user as it
> > implies there are a large number of possibilities.
> > 
> What user are you talking about?


The value returned by `uname -m` for Intel/AMD processors supporting the
64 bit ISA is x86_64. There are no other values that would be matched by
"*", either in the middle or at the end of x86*64*. This is unlike i*86
where you could have i386, i486, i586 and i686.

That's my assertion from my understanding of config.guess I used as a
reference. 



> 
> Cheers,
> Julien

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