Well ok =) i call it ia32 since its original name of this arch however it can be better called x86 (x86_32 and x86_64)
PS seems many users were confused with ia64 since they associate it with core2 and nahalem 2010/12/1 Diego Elio Pettenò <flamee...@gmail.com>: > Il giorno mer, 01/12/2010 alle 22.11 +0300, Alexey Shvetsov ha scritto: >> >> PS also with this feature seems amd64 and x86 can be merged in one >> arch (like it was done in kernel) since its only abis of ia32 >> > I would suggest against that. > > For the kernel it's somewhat easier, but for userland, x86 and amd64 are > definitely far enough that I wouldn't be surprised if it'll take a few > more years before we can easily consider the two keywords a single one. > > Just think of a relatively-common situation. > > void *bar = foo(); > > with foo implicitly declared. On 32-bit userland it'll be "all fine", > but will crash badly on 64-bit userland. > > And this is without adding to the necessity of PIC, and the rest of > little details that this brings with it. > > For the sake of safety, let's _not_ merge this, as we have said too many > times for me to dig up. > > > And finally, let's not call it ia32. No matter what Intel wants it to be > called, if you were to call it like that, you'd just have a number of > people asking why their ia64 stage don't work. > > -- > Diego Elio Pettenò — “Flameeyes” > http://blog.flameeyes.eu/ > > If you found a .asc file in this mail and know not what it is, > it's a GnuPG digital signature: http://www.gnupg.org/ > > > -- Best Regards, Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia Department of Molecular and Radiation Biophysics Gentoo Team Ru Gentoo Linux Dev mailto:alexx...@gmail.com mailto:ale...@gentoo.org mailto:ale...@omrb.pnpi.spb.ru
