PERFORCE change 28461 for review

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20030409173830.GA549 at dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar writes
:

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

Considering that AMD64 seems to be the only thing to prevent Intel
from ramming Itanics down our throats with it's near monopoly, I
think it is important to respect AMD's naming.

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