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Re: Yet another architecture

>>>>> schwidefsky  writes:

>>> 1) The name of the beast. We use the preliminary name s390x at the
 > moment.
>>> I can't say that I like it but I couldn't think of something better. The
>>> project name of the machine is "Freeway", the architecture extension is
>>> called "esame" and in addition s/390 has been renamed to zSeries. How
>>> should we call the configuration name for the 64 bit backend for S/390?
>> 
>> Well, so far we've added 64 to the names.  And 32 the old ones.
>> Means, something like
>> 
>> S/390/64

 > That was my first thought too but the configuration name would be s39064.
 > We can't add a hyphen between 390 and 64, can we? I like to have a short
 > and simple name.

But you can use an underscore or another character (a hyphen is
special for config.*).

Btw. please get official ELF machine IDs from Dave Prosser
<dfp@sco.com> (is this the right person to contact?)?

Andreas
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