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.\" arch.1 --
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.\" Copyright 1993 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.\" Public domain: may be freely distributed.
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.TH ARCH 1 "4 July 1997" "Linux 2.0" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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arch \- print machine architecture
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B arch
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B arch
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is equivalent to
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.BR "uname -m" .
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On current Linux systems,
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.B arch
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prints things such as "i386", "i486", "i586", "alpha", "sparc",
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"arm", "m68k", "mips", "ppc".
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR uname (1),
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.BR uname (2)
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.\"
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.\" Details:
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.\" arch prints the machine part of the system_utsname struct
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.\" This struct is defined in version.c, and this field is
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.\" initialized with UTS_MACHINE, which is defined as $ARCH
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.\" in the main Makefile.
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.\" That gives the possibilities
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.\" alpha arm i386 m68k mips ppc sparc sparc64
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.\"
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.\" If Makefile is not edited, ARCH is guessed by
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.\" ARCH := $(shell uname -m | sed -e s/i.86/i386/ -e s/sun4u/sparc64/)
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.\" Then how come we get these i586 values?
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.\" Well, the routine check_bugs() does system_utsname.machine[1] = '0' + x86;
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.\" (called in init/main.c, defined in ./include/asm-i386/bugs.h)
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