I've noticed that the GCC user documentation is quite inconsistent about the name(s) it uses for i386/x86-64/etc targets. invoke.texi has a section for "i386 and x86-64 Options", but in other places the manual uses x86, X86, i?86, i[34567]86, x86_64 (underscore instead of a dash), etc.

I'd be happy to work on a patch to bring the manual to using a common naming convention, but what should it be? Wikipedia seems to use "x86" (lowercase) to refer to the entire family of architectures (including the original 16-bit variants), "IA-32" for the 32-bit architecture (I believe that is Intel's official name), and "x86-64" (with a dash instead of underscore) for the 64-bit architecture. But of course the target maintainers should have the final say on what names to use.

-Sandra

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