Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:00:08 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 |
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On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 07:12:20PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > > > hmm, so the current x86_64 will be changed to x86-64 or > > will there be x86_64 and x86-64? > > No. The filesystem policy _tends_ to be that dashes and spaces are turned > into underscores when used as filenames. Don't ask me why (well, the space > part is obvious, since real spaces tend to be a pain to use on the command > line, but don't ask me why people tend to conver a dash to an underscore). > > So the real name is (and has always been, as far as I can tell) x86-64.
As far as I know, the real reason for the underscore in x86_64 in Linux is that autoconf/configure hate dashes in arch names, because of this notation:
x86_64-gnu-linux-pc
If a dash were used, the string would be unparseable without prior knowledge of all arch names.
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