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Old 31st August 2008
troberts troberts is offline
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Originally Posted by phoenix View Post
CPUTYPE has no effect on whether or not ports are compiled as 64-bit or 32-bit. The version of the OS installed does
What does the CPUTYPE do then? My thinking is by letting the compiler know what CPU is being used, then it can compile features (i.e. MMX, SSE3, SSE4) the CPU can use and/or not compile features the CPU cannot use .
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