Since there were no objections to Steve's proposal I'll assume we closed this issue and update the spec. accordingly. Andrew Stephen McGough wrote:
This is a simple list folks - all we need to make sure is that we clearly define what each item means. So come one come all!
Some ideas for defs:
x86 : Intel Based architecture derived from the 8086 chip set x86_32 : an x86 processor capable of 32bit processing mode x86_64 : an x86 processor capable of 64bit processing mode ia64 : The Intel architecture 64bit processor
steve..
Christopher Smith wrote:
On 3/6/05 03:37, "Michel Drescher" <Michel.Drescher@uk.fujitsu.com> wrote:
On 3 Jun 2005, at 11:22, Donal K. Fellows wrote:
Processor Architectures (Table 4-2 in 4.2.2.1) Should 'x86' really be called 'ia32'? (I don't really care.)
'x86' is no doubt the more common term - to be honest, only a small faint bell is ringing for ia32, and I am really not sure if this term really exists. All tools, programs and descriptions I know (i.e. the GNU tools collection) do all use x86 and ia64 to separate 32 bit and 64 bit architectures.
Should we also add the (ever so popular) x86_64 to the ProcessorArchitectureEnumeration? ia64 really only describes Itanium.
-- Chris
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