Re: [general] Correct name for 64-bit architecture (not IPF)

[Mark Hindess <ma...@googlemail.com>]

On 23 January 2007 at 16:10, Gregory Shimansky <gs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Today while investigating the bug in HARMONY-2975 it appeared that 
> eclipse doesn't start on 64-bit Linux because os.arch property value is 
> em64t. The property is set in DRLVM source. Eclipse doesn't recognize 
> this architecture and failed to load SWT library. When this property 
> value is changed to x86_64 Eclipse runs ok.
> 
> I think we should agree how to call 64-bit platform and I think it is 
> better to follow the same convention as is used in Linux, that is call 
> it x86_64 [1].
> 
> It may happen that for better compatibility or reuse of VM and classlib 
> code in other projects we'll need to change some other em64t and amd64 
> mentions in the sources to x86_64. If there is no strong objection I 
> would like to change all sources to use only x86_64 instead of brand 
> names, and rename the files which contain em64t in their names. What do 
> you think?
> 
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EM64T#Industry_naming_conventions

+1.  This is what classlib does already.

-Mark.