Re: architecture names (i386-linux, etc.)
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> Perhaps we should explicitly require an LSB compliant application must also
> terminate neatly with an appropriate error message if it finds a CPU
> it cannot handle
Quite a while back, we agreed that applications should be built for a 386
for portability. If an application used a feature of a more recent processor,
then it was responsible for checking and doing something appropriate if the
test failed.
Stuart
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