What to call Intel ia32e processor?

[Karel Gardas]

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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