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Re: What to call Intel ia32e processor?
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap at osdl dot org>
- Cc: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:10:15 -0700
- Subject: Re: What to call Intel ia32e processor?
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <20040227095313.774f51d2.rddunlap@osdl.org>, "Randy.Dunlap" writes:
>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?
Or "x86-64" :-)
jeff