[cxx-abi-dev] C++ ABI: Titling the document

Mark Mitchell mark at codesourcery.com
Thu Mar 13 05:30:13 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 20:30, Dennis Handly wrote:
> >The "C++ ABI for Itanium (Draft)"
> >(2) It's not really for Itanium any more.  It's certainly for all IA64
> >    chips, and it's really much more general than that.  There are only
> >    a few platform-specific bits.
> 
> >I think we should drop the "Draft" and "Itanium" from the title.  
> >Any objections?
> Mark Mitchell
> 
> I assumed Itanium is used the name of the chip family, not the name of
> a specific chip.  You could use "IPF", or spell it out as "Itanium Processor
> Family".

The key point is that the same ABI is being used on ARM, x86, SPARC,
etc.

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