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authorKevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>2003-08-02 00:27:11 +0200
committerKevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>2003-08-02 00:27:11 +0200
commiteb3a787031a066843130d2372b5c3877e7ebaf97 (patch)
tree11ac8bbcfb2b9d74a41f7b9b13b32711cf58e983 /config.guess
parent32007995c63528532db0003a2bd156a639e58c41 (diff)
downloadgmp-eb3a787031a066843130d2372b5c3877e7ebaf97.tar.gz
* config.guess (alpha-*-*): Update comments on what configfsf.guess
does and doesn't do for us.
Diffstat (limited to 'config.guess')
-rwxr-xr-xconfig.guess11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/config.guess b/config.guess
index 1896431c2..af42f6692 100755
--- a/config.guess
+++ b/config.guess
@@ -109,10 +109,13 @@ fi
case "$guess_full" in
alpha-*-*)
- # configfsf.guess has a block of code not unlike this for OSF and linsux.
- # Perhaps it'll support *BSD too some time, in which case the code here
- # can be removed.
-
+ # configfsf.guess detects exact alpha cpu types for OSF and GNU/Linux, but
+ # not for *BSD and other systems. We try to get an exact type for any
+ # plain "alpha" it leaves.
+ #
+ # configfsf.guess used to have a block of code not unlike this, but these
+ # days does its thing with Linux kernel /proc/cpuinfo or OSF psrinfo.
+ #
cat <<EOF >$dummy.s
.data
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