/ (Steven Cogorno) was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh said:
|> / Steve Cogorno <> was heard to say:
|> [...]
|> | While I hesitate to add a new attribute, the only alternative is for us to
|> | cram the word size into the existing attributes:
|> |
|> | OS Arch
|> |
|> | Solaris SPARCv9
|> | Solaris-32 SPARCv9-32
|> | Solaris-64 SPARCv9-64
|>
|> You wouldn't really need to reflect it in both the OS and Arch
|> attributes, would you? The OS is Solaris in each case, no?
|
| No, it could be linux on SPARC hardware.
Right, I know you need both OS and Arch, but do you really need
to distinguish the number of bits in both places? Why not:
OS Arch
Solaris SPARCv9
Solaris SPARCv9-32
Solaris SPARCv9-64
Linux SPARCv9-32
etc.
(But I'm only asking out of curiosity.)
Be seeing you,
norm
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