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Re: x86_64 file names?
- To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: x86_64 file names?
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:46:33 +0200
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <3B787018.5040700@cygnus.com>
Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> In looking through the BFD sources I came:
>
> * bfd/elf64-x86-64.c
> gas/testsuite/gas/i386/x86_64.d
> gas/testsuite/gas/i386/x86_64.s
> * include/elf/x86-64.h
> ld/emulparams/elf_x86_64.sh
>
> this prompted me to wonder. Should the gdb file be called
> x86_64-tdep.c or x86-64-tdep.c. I really don't care but suspect the
> latter is more consistent with the core binutils files.
>
> So a question for the SuSE folks, what are the core GCC files being called?
The architecture is called x86-64. Since config.guess/config.sub will
not accept a minus, we had to use x86_64 for config.guess and that's
how this crept in. So in general, the name should be x86-64.
For GCC all the patches are done to the i386 files and there's no
x86-64 file at all.
Andreas
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