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Re: What to call Intel ia32e processor?
- From: Karel Gardas <kgardas at objectsecurity dot com>
- To: law at redhat dot com
- Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap at osdl dot org>, "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 19:17:00 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: What to call Intel ia32e processor?
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 law@redhat.com wrote:
> 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" :-)
Or why not straight "amd64"? :-) Just to name things with the right
name...
Karel
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