Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH 2/8] Correct IA64 reference

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Sanjeev!

On Thu,  8 Nov 2018 23:19:26 +0800
Sanjeev Gupta <address@hidden> wrote:

> Although IA32 is the old i[3456]86 architecture, IA64
> is the totally different Itanium chipset.  The 64-bit
> equiv of x96 is x86-64
> 
> See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Industry_naming_conventions

Acording to gcc it should be amd64.  See "man gcc".  

Gentoo also uses amd64.

But the Linux kernel agrees with  you:

# uname -a
Linux blondie.rellim.com 4.19.0-gentoo #1 SMP Wed Oct 24 10:47:27 PDT 2018 
x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

I think amd64 is more common.  Maybe mention both x86_64 and amd64.

RGDS
GARY
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