What to call Intel ia32e processor?

[H. J. Lu]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:15:17AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:10:15 -0700 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" :-)
> 
> Sure, that works for me.  I don't know what HJ's reasons are;
> it sounds like he wants/needs a unique id ???

Currently, when you configure gcc for x86_64-linux, it will tune for
K8. I want a new target, which will tune for Intel ia32e processor by
default. I am using ia32e-linux for the time being.


H.J.