PERFORCE change 28461 for review

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:04:01AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:23:56AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > 
> > On 07-Apr-2003 Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=28461
> > > 
> > > Change 28461 by peter at peter_daintree on 2003/04/07 16:35:32
> > > 
> > >       use -mcmodel=medium for hammer.  Otherwise it generates
> > >       32 bit instructions for things like invltlb().  kernel model
> > >       comes later.
> > 
> > Side topic: are we going to call it amd64 some day instead of x86-64?
> 
> This gets hairy... if the toolchain calls it one thing and we call it
> another.  AMD marketing is trying to squash the "x86-64" name in favaor
> of "AMD64".  Note that "AMD64" is what M$ has always called it... so one
> has to wonder...

I agree with the concerns, but x86-64 is a particularly ugly name
and uncomfortable to use in general that I'm inclined to prefer a
name change in spite of the drawbacks. Think about all the scripts
and makefiles containing x86_64... *shiver*

BTW: To what extend is the actual name important? Is it only
'uname -m' that really matters (toolchain bordercases aside)?

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