Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > >> Gregory Shimansky wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> Today while investigating the bug in HARMONY-2975 it appeared that >>> eclipse doesn't start on 64-bit Linux because os.arch property value is >>> em64t. The property is set in DRLVM source. Eclipse doesn't recognize >>> this architecture and failed to load SWT library. When this property >>> value is changed to x86_64 Eclipse runs ok. >>> >>> I think we should agree how to call 64-bit platform and I think it is >>> better to follow the same convention as is used in Linux, that is call >>> it x86_64 [1]. >>> >>> It may happen that for better compatibility or reuse of VM and classlib >>> code in other projects we'll need to change some other em64t and amd64 >>> mentions in the sources to x86_64. If there is no strong objection I >>> would like to change all sources to use only x86_64 instead of brand >>> names, and rename the files which contain em64t in their names. What do >>> you think? >>> >>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM64T#Industry_naming_conventions >> >> +1 >> >> IPF is rather cryptic anyway while x86_64 is immediately understood even >> by those who never heard it before. > > IPF is something different - it's the "Itanium Processor Family".
ah, d'oh, my bad -- Stefano.
