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Re: Is it x86-64 or x86_64 ?

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:17:16 +0100
Subject: Re: Is it x86-64 or x86_64 ?
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The original SPEC named it x86-64.  Since configure treats a "-" as a
separation character, we could not have uname return x86-64 and
therefore used "x86_64".  Later AMD renamed "x86-64" to "AMD64"

So, the correct historical usage is "x86-64" but uname/configure use
"x86_64",

Andreas
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