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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:34 am
by Combuster
IA-64 != Intel 64
when expanding:
Intel 64 Architecture
Intel Architecture 64
You have one second to tell me which is the x86-64 and which is the itanium. Now there's exactly WHY that convention sucks.
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:49 am
by SpooK
Combuster wrote:IA-64 != Intel 64
when expanding:
Intel 64 Architecture
Intel Architecture 64
You have one second to tell me which is the x86-64 and which is the itanium. Now there's exactly WHY that convention sucks.
IA-64: Itanium -> Itanium 2
Intel x86-64: Yamhill -> Clackamas -> IA-32e -> EM64T -> Intel 64.
Probably took Intel some time to concede the fact that their IA-64 line was overpriced garbage and had to match "names" in order to establish that kind of recognition.
If I partnered the design for IA-64, I would try to erase/hide the mistake as well
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:27 pm
by SpooK
Candy wrote:C offers the possibility of #include <> or #include "" for that very purpose. What about offering the same functionality, or if you don't see a way to do so, to offer only the second (which includes all of the first)?
From the DEV group, in response to the above...
H. Peter Anvin wrote:That's not what <> versus "" does. <> is used for system headers, which
for most compilers mean "only paths that are build in or specified with
-I, do not search the local directory."
If anyone is willing to write a pathname manipulation library in portable C that handles all common platforms, we might consider using it for a future version. Again, Perl's File::Spec has some good API ideas.