Re: [PATCH 00/18] Make common x86 arch area for i386 and x86_64 -Take 2

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Mar 14 2007 21:21, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>> also, having the x32_ and x64_ prefix is a painful daily reminder for 
>> all of us changing the architecture that 'this stuff needs to be 
>> unified!'.
>
>We would probably stuck with that forever and it just looks ugly.
>Non paravirt xen uses such a setup and I always hated it.
>
>Besides the architecture is called x86_64

If you don't like x{32,64}_ suffixes, _{32,64} suffixes would also be a
possibility. powerpc/mm/init_32.c for example does it that way.


Jan
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