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Re: [ping] Re: proper name of i386/x86-64/etc targets
- From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Sandra Loosemore <sandra at codesourcery dot com>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Jan Hubicka <hubicka at ucw dot cz>, Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:14:31 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [ping] Re: proper name of i386/x86-64/etc targets
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Hi,
On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > ia32 is confusing because ia64 (a well known term) sounds related but
> > can't be farther away from it, and it's also vendor specific. Our
> > traditional i386 seems better to me (although it has its own problems,
> > but I'm not aware of any better abbreviation in the wild that's vendor
> > neutral and specifically means the 32bit incarnation of the x86
> > architecture).
> >
>
> The problem with i386 is it is a real processor. When someone says
> i386, it isn't clear if it means the processor or 32-bit x86.
That's what I meant with its own problems :) But ia32 seems worse to me
than this IMO.
Ciao,
Michael.