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Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Thu Jul 4 14:47:00 GMT 2013


On 7/4/2013 8:16 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> I'm ok with that, but I think we should drop the "32" from MINGW in
> the first place.
>
> Does anybody rely on the "WOW64" in uname -s output?  I just checked
> the scripts in /bin in my installation and none of it seems to check
> for that info.
>
> And then again, it *is* redundant, given the uname -m output...

cygwin64$ uname -s
CYGWIN_NT-6.1

cygwin64$ uname -m
x86_64

cygwin32$ uname -s
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64

cygwin32$ uname -m
i686

Yep, seems redundant.

--
Chuck


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