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Building for different architectures

Building for different architectures

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Building for different architectures

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- [Instructor] I've mentioned throughout this course so far that we need to pay attention to the architecture that a package is built for. So what does that mean? Different kinds of processors use different architectures or different designs that result in these processors needing information they run presented to them in different ways. To do this, compilers take source code and build it into executable targeted for a particular architecture, usually the same architecture that the computer running the compiler has. Most of us are used to using processors like Intel Core, Intel Xeon, AMD Ryzen or Opteron, and these are all widely available modern processors. They also all share the x86_64 instruction set so they need the executables built for that instruction set. But there are other kinds of processors out there, including older 32-bit processors, processors used in mainframes, and increasingly ARM processors of various…

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