[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev47012 - src/apps/haiku-depot
- From: Jonathan Schleifer <js-haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 17:54:08 +0100
Am 16.03.2014 um 17:44 schrieb John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Forgive my ignorance but isn't Itanium the name of the Intel 64 bit platform
> not to be confused with AMD's x86_64 archecture? I don't understand why that
> would be a good name for the API.
That's because a new ABI was designed for the Itanium platform, which basically
became the standard for all compilers. Before that, every compiler did its own
thing. See http://mentorembedded.github.io/cxx-abi/abi.html
> The gcc2 API should be called the Be API while the gcc4/clang API should be
> called the Haiku API version 1 I suppose.
That's one way to put it. And doesn't limit the differences to the C++ ABI. It
means we could also change the C ABI etc.
--
Jonathan
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