On Monday, May 23, 2011 8:05:12 am Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On May 22, 2011, at 10:01 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > > On May 22, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > > > >> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:22:56PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote: > >>> The problem here is deeper in my opinion. What FreeBSD calls > >>> amd64 the rest of the world (ie. linux) calls x86_64, I think > >>> that instead of this we should teach llvm/clang about "amd64". > >>> Maybe as a FreeBSD-only diff. > >> > >> If we move away from "amd64", we are going to need a _substantial_ amount > >> of work on ports. > > > > Yea. That's why I think, although I'd like to move away from it, we're > > stuck with amd64 for both MACHINE and MACHINE_ARCH for quite some time. In that case, we'll just have to configure clang the same way we configure gcc with the x86_64 monicker. > > Is there an authoritative source for these names? I am not quite sure > what led to the confusion in first place but I guess it's the "oh Intel > is doing EMT64 let's not call this amd" kind of thing. > > I seem to remember that apart from the linux kernel and OSX most others > incl. windows, java and sun used to call it amd64 as well when it came to > technical things. So I am not exactly sure why this regularly comes up > but I'd assume it's because of "what linux calls it must be right"? > > I admit that it's confusing to got to x86-64.org and see it called the > amd64 architecture. I am sure Peter and David know a lot more about this. > > Despite remembering Dragonfly having done the change I cannot see FreeBSD > doing the same in a short timeframe, and yet I have no idea why we wanted to?
AMD changed the name. It used to be 'amd64' and we used that name as result. Later they changed it to x86-64, possibly because Linux and the GNU folks had adopted that instead of 'amd64'. Renaming it now would be a PITA. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
