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GNU coding standards terminology modernization for IA-64, x64, etc.
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
GNU coding standards terminology modernization for IA-64, x64, etc. |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Oct 2005 16:45:43 -0700 |
Microsoft Windows now has 64-bit ports to the AMD64 and EM64T
platforms, which it collectively calls "x64", but the GNU Coding
Standards refer only to its older 64-bit port to the Itanium, which it
calls "IA-64". Rather than continue to track Microsoft's terminology
changes I propose that we drop the reference to IA-64, as follows:
2005-10-04 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
* standards.texi (CPU Portability): Don't mention just IA-64, as
the same problem occurs on AMD64 and EM64T as well. Just say
"64-bit programs on Microsoft Windows" so that we needn't track
Microsoft's releases so closely.
--- standards.texi 18 Aug 2005 17:42:20 -0000 1.149
+++ standards.texi 4 Oct 2005 23:40:52 -0000
@@ -2673,7 +2673,7 @@ printf ("diff = %ld\n", (long) (pointer2
@end example
1989 Standard C requires this to work, and we know of only one
-counterexample: 64-bit programs on Microsoft Windows IA-64. We will
+counterexample: 64-bit programs on Microsoft Windows. We will
leave it to those who want to port GNU programs to that environment
to figure out how to do it.
- GNU coding standards terminology modernization for IA-64, x64, etc.,
Paul Eggert <=