Re: AMD64 port

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :We absolutely need to rename the platform (again!)!  It is simply _not_ pc32, but it is "x86".  The platform can be used for both 64bit x86 and 32bit x86.  Only the cpu part changes.
> :
> :And while we're there we should also rename "amd64" to "x86-64" (that's the name which gets used nowadays) and "i386" to "x86-32" (to keep consistency).
>     We are not renaming the platforms.  The platform names do not have to
>     correspond to any sort of official designation.  That is what the machine
>     and machine architecture names are for, and those generally have to
>     correspond to GCC architecture specifications.

Of course they do not have to correspond, but they should reflect something people can understand.  I do not understand why amd64 bits should be living under "pc32", really.

cheers
 simon

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