Q: Compiles for wrong processor and it still worked

Alex de Kruijff freebsd at akruijff.dds.nl
Sun Sep 28 10:38:02 PDT 2003


I have compiles my world sources for the PIII processors. I have
recently discoverd that i have a number of PII processors. The compiled
code for PIII still works on them. I'm ammazed. :o Can anybody explain why?

I include this in to /etc/make.conf

CPUTYPE=p3

-- 
Alex

Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/index.php?dir=docs/FreeBSD/


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