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From:  Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu" ?
Date:  Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:08:08 +0200
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Grant wrote:
>>> I'm installing Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 110.  It's one of the
>>> "netbook" laptops.  /etc/make.conf says:
>>>
>>> CHOST="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
>>>
>>> Is that correct?
>> If it's an Intel-compatible (x86) and Gentoo is 32-bit, then yes, that's
>> correct.
> 
> OK, does i686 indicate 64-bit?

No.  64-bit is "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu".  I don't know why you have i486 
instead of i686, but I do know that i486 is correct too.  If it has any 
drawbacks compared to i686, no idea.