matthew green wrote:
>the reason it's done the way it is today is that the sparc and sparc64
>ports are separate - we have arch/sparc and arch/sparc64, and that name
>has traditionally always been the $MACHINE in netbsd, so way back when
>we chose to always use "sparc64" on sun4u machines, and let $MACHINE_ARCH
>be used for deciding the native binary format.

As a comparison, what happens if you run arch/i386 on an AMD64 machine ?

Robert Swindells