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		fizixer on June 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to compile C apps with musl and Clang I got lost in their naming convention, what is it, 2c? 8c? 9c?

mappu on June 28, 2015 | [–]

The leading number just refers to the target architecture. 5x is arm32, 6x is x86_64 and 8x is x86_32.

andrewchambers on June 28, 2015 | [–]

It explains it in the man pages.

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