x86_64 file names?

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
Mon Aug 13 23:46:00 GMT 2001


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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