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Re: Is it x86-64 or x86_64 ?
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 09:09:24 -0800
- Subject: Re: Is it x86-64 or x86_64 ?
- References: <17421.24528.603323.647294@zapata.pink>
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:26:24AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Our config tools return "x86_64" as an arch. Like this:
They cannot return "x86-64", because that would break target triplets
(which use "-" as a separator). So while x86-64 is the correct name,
it cannot be used in contexts where "-" is a reserved character. Hence
the switch to the underscore.