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

[John H. Spicer]

Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 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.
> 

I don't have a problem with a name change, but it seems like the ABI needs some 
kind of name other than just "The C++ ABI".  That seems too generic.  Even 
though it is being used elsewhere, it was developed for IA64, so I would find 
the continued use of that name acceptable.  Continuing to use that name has the 
advantange that people have been referring to it in that way for quite some time 
and a name change would somewhat invalidate existing documentation, etc. that 
refers to the old name.

John Spicer