On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Uros Bizjak <ubiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I like this suggestion. Thanks. >> >> Ping? Any thoughts? > > Let's ask Intel people ... > -- H.J.
