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Re: [ping] Re: proper name of i386/x86-64/etc targets

On 01/20/2015 11:40 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Sandra Loosemore
<sandra@codesourcery.com> wrote:

Since there seems to be arguments against using both "IA-32" and "i386" for
the 32-bit x86 architecture, how about, uh, "32-bit x86"?  With the other
names in parentheses where appropriate?  I think we could also ignore the
16-bit x86 variants for the purposes of GCC and just use "x86" instead of
"i386 and x86-64".



Please don't invent a new name.  It may confuse people.


On 01/20/2015 12:02 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> wrote:

Ping?  Any thoughts?


x86 for the family and x86-32/x86-64 for the 2 architectures?



Works for me.
Ummm, this seems like an inconsistent position. "32-bit x86" isn't even a new name; it's a restricting adjective "32-bit" on the existing name "x86". But "x86-32" isn't an existing real name for anything, as far as I can tell. 

-Sandra
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