On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Mathias Gaunard < mathias.gaunard@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
On 07/05/13 18:17, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
Are you sure about that?
If the compiler is configured for e.g. i686-pc-linux-gnu then it defaults to -march=i686, and I believe several GNU/Linux distros target i586 or even i686 by default these days.
AFAIK the latest Debian and its derivatives are still built for i386.
No, their "i386" doesn't actually mean 80386: However, Debian GNU/Linux wheezy will *not* run on 386 or earlier processors. Despite the architecture name "i386", support for actual 80386 processors (and their clones) was dropped with the Sarge (r3.1) release of Debianhttp://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en#ftn.idp5578656. (No version of Linux has ever supported the 286 or earlier chips in the series.) All i486 and later processors are still supported. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch02s01.html.en