Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 14:55:41 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 28461 for review Message-ID: <20030409215541.CB4192A8A7@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20030409203856.GA45368@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"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@freebsd.org"
over "freebsd-x86_64@freebsd.org". Speaking of which, its probably about
time to create one.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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