A stupid 64bit question ... but ...

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Parv wrote:

> in message <7ab0fd580512042313k15a93166i at mail.gmail.com>,
> wrote Guillaume R. thusly...
>>
>> 2005/12/5, David O'Brien <obrien at freebsd.org>:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 06:50:55PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I didn't realize that the newer Xeon's were 64bit ... now,
>>>> I've just built perl 5.8.7, and its reporting:
>>>>
>>>> # perl -v
>>>> This is perl, v5.8.7 built for i386-freebsd-64int
> ...
>>> Perl won't be reporting a 64-bit capable machine, when running a
>>> 32-bit OS.  Look in /var/run/dmesg for 'AMD Features' to report
>>> 'LM' (long mode).
>>
>> So why there is a 64int? We can suppose that perl has seen that
>> Marc's proc is a 64 one no?  I asked that cause I got a 64bits
>> (amd) which run on a 32 bits mode and I got oftenly such
>> "i386-freebsd-64amd"
>
> By chance any of you built the Perl w/ USE_64_BIT_INT option? See
> "perl -V".

Actually, from what I can tell, that is the default, whereas you can 
disable it if you wish ...

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