On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Sandra Loosemore <san...@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> 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. > > > Ping? Any thoughts? Let's ask Intel people ... Uros.
