[Python-checkins] r55103 - in python/trunk: Modules/itertoolsmodule.c Modules/posixmodule.c Objects/intobject.c Objects/longobject.c PC/config.c PC/pyconfig.h Python/thread_nt.h

[Kristján Valur Jónsson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Martin v. Löwis" [mailto:martin at v.loewis.de]
> But the most neutral name would be wrong. AMD has invented the
> technology, so AMD gets to name it. AMD wants us to call it AMD64,
> so we should obey.  I feel quite strongly that Intel's marketing
> droids have no right to change history. They may manage to subjugate
> Microsoft's marketing (to call the product "x64", even though
> inside, they use AMD64 in many places still), but I would prefer if we
> could resist.
>
> Plus, it's a compatibility issue. People may rely on that string,
> so their code will break.

Ah, but Microsoft invented the compiler so they get to name the
preprocessor macro..

Anyway, I don't care much one way or the other and am happy that this
seems to be the biggest beef you have about my three checkins :)
I'll fix that particular bit.  The significant change was the removal of the _M_X86
define, which is never true for 64 bit builds.

On a different issue, What is your opinion on Itanium?  Is it here to
stay?  I never installed any I64 compilers and didn't add that target
to the VC8 build dir.  Do you think I ought to?
Kristjan