PERFORCE change 28461 for review

[Peter Wemm]

"David O'Brien" wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:10:05AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > > > 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 on
    e
> > > > 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*
> 
> I fail to see what is so ugly about x86-64.  I think it is a perfect name
> that totally indicates what the platform is all about.

Except that "x86-64" (correct name) is parseable as a mathematical
expression. "x86_64" isn't technically correct and looks nasty in things
like "x86_64-unknown-freebsd".

I prefer amd64, but I dont really want to change this in the p4 stuff I'm
working on yet.  I'd rather that we made the final choice at commit time.

As a mailing list, for example, I prefer  "freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org"
over "freebsd-x86_64 at freebsd.org".  Speaking of which, its probably about
time to create one.

Cheers,
-Peter
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