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Re: What to call Intel ia32e processor?
- From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap at osdl dot org>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:53:13 -0800
- Subject: Re: What to call Intel ia32e processor?
- Organization: OSDL
- References: <20040227173413.GA12585@lucon.org>
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:34:13 -0800 H. J. Lu wrote:
| We'd like to add a new target to gcc for Intel ia32e processor. But
| we couldn't find a suitable name. We don't want to use pentium4xxxx.
| The first ia32e processor has the code name Prescott. But not all
| Prescott processors support ia32e. We can use ia32e-os. But ia32e
| is an instruction set and there will be more processors implementing
| ia32e. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Should it be very processor-specific?
If not, how about ix8664 or ix64?
Or are those too confusing due to other similar names?
or ix86et?
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~Randy