Re: ia64

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@fantomas.sk>]

> >On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 21:57 -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
> >>Frustrating. Why didn't the Debian developers stick with the more
> >>correct x86_64 nomenclature that the Linux kernel team uses?

> Hans du Plooy wrote:
> >I might be mistaken, but as far as I remember "amd64" is the name of the
> >architecture that AMD developed (like i386 was designed and thus named
> >by Intel).  "x86_64" is the extentions that make the CPU compatible with
> >the amd64 architecture.

On 11.11.06 11:09, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> I run AMD Sempron CPU, but I think Debian amd64 works on Intel, too. If 
> this is correct, they made things a bit confusing, since name amd64 
> should imply gcc switch "-march=athlon64". And "-march=athlon64" implies 
> 3DNow! instructions that Intel doesn't support.

Are you sure? 3DNow! instructions are vector instructions, they aren't
usually used in ordinary code. -march=athlon64 (and k6,k7/athlon) doesn't
necessarily mean that the gcc will use those instructions...
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