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Any cpu family not listed in the above list is not guaranteed to
remain stable in future releases.
+Those porting from autotools should note that meson does not add
+endianness to the name of the cpu_family. For example, autotools
+will call little endian PPC64 "ppc64le", meson will not, you must
+also check the `.endian()` value of the machine for this information.
+
## Operating system names
These are provided by the `.system()` method call.