PERFORCE change 28461 for review

[Andrew R. Reiter]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, David O'Brien wrote:

:On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:23:56AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
:>
:> On 07-Apr-2003 Peter Wemm wrote:
:> > http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=28461
:> >
:> > Change 28461 by peter at peter_daintree on 2003/04/07 16:35:32
:> >
:> >       use -mcmodel=medium for hammer.  Otherwise it generates
:> >       32 bit instructions for things like invltlb().  kernel model
:> >       comes later.
:>
:> Side topic: are we going to call it amd64 some day instead of x86-64?
:
:This gets hairy... if the toolchain calls it one thing and we call it
:another.  AMD marketing is trying to squash the "x86-64" name in favaor
:of "AMD64".  Note that "AMD64" is what M$ has always called it... so one
:has to wonder...

http://news.com.com/2008-1082-995885.html

mentions about AMD receiving a warmer welcome from M$ than they (AMD)
initially thought they were going to get (atleast wrt opteron)

Cheers,
Andrew

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Andrew R. Reiter
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