The x32 system call ABI [LWN.net]

The x32 system call ABI

Posted Sep 10, 2011 8:27 UTC (Sat) by bersl2 (guest, #34928)
Parent article: The x32 system call ABI

I know nobody cares, but seeing "x32" makes my blood boil as much as seeing "x64" did.

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Posted Sep 10, 2011 17:11 UTC (Sat) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link] (1 responses)

I can see reasons for preferring AMD64 to x64, but why are you offended by x32 and what would you prefer instead.

Posted Sep 11, 2011 14:28 UTC (Sun) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

I believe bersl thinks the same thing I do: it should be x86_32, for parallelism with x86_64.