Athlon 550

[Joe Buck]

> 	I have just purchased this CPU (I am very very pleased with it), I
> have documention from AMD saying that this is a 64bit cpu.

Only for marketing-spin meanings of "64 bit CPU".  It implements the
Intel x86 instruction set, which is a 32-bit instruction set.

In fairness to AMD, I can't find any claims that the Athlon is a 64-bit
CPU on their web site.

> The main reason for this mail, is
> to ask the compiler that I built from gcc-2.95-2 x86 is a 32bit
> compiler?

Yes.

> And if I was to get the source for the alpha version of the
> same compiler, would that work better than the x86 version?

It wouldn't work at all, as the Alpha instruction set has nothing to
do with the Athlon.