Hi Everyone,
Currently we uses i386, i486 and i586 within x86 build.
Do we have a plan to cleanup it and replace to just x86?
-Dmitry
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Dmitry Samersoff
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On 2012-08-15 10:38, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Currently we uses i386, i486 and i586 within x86 build.
Not only the 32-bit Intel architecture, but the 64-bit as well has
naming confusions.
Unfortunately, it is not that simple to just replace everything with x86.
1) Some things
Magnus,
Thank you for the background.
I understand that big architecture names cleanup contains lots of
underwater stones.
It's why I'm asking just for one piece of this mess - I would like
to have {i386,i486,i586} changed to the single name.
-Dmitry
On 2012-08-15 15:52, Magnus Ihse Bursie
On 2012-08-15 14:15, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
Magnus,
Thank you for the background.
I understand that big architecture names cleanup contains lots of
underwater stones.
It's why I'm asking just for one piece of this mess - I would like
to have {i386,i486,i586} changed to the single name.
The
On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Currently we uses i386, i486 and i586 within x86 build.
Yeah, historic stuff. This is a more difficult problem than it seems, as
Magnus says.
Do we have a plan to cleanup it and replace to just x86?
Where we can, in
amd64 was very company specific and as far as I knew, we were favoring x64, but
I have no objection to x86_64.
But in some places, like the jre/lib/ARCH name, we are kind of stuck with
amd64, but now that I think about it,
I'm not exactly sure why we would be stuck with any directory name like
2012/8/15 4:52 -0700, magnus.ihse.bur...@oracle.com:
Unfortunately, it is not that simple to just replace everything with x86.
Sad, but true.
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2) Changing names on files or directories (unfortunately) makes version
control
harder. If files are to be moved around all over the place