Joe Buck writes: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 10:26:24AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > > Our config tools return "x86_64" as an arch. Like this: > > They cannot return "x86-64", because that would break target triplets > (which use "-" as a separator). So while x86-64 is the correct name, > it cannot be used in contexts where "-" is a reserved character. Hence > the switch to the underscore.
I understand that. What I don't understand is why gcc rejects x86_64 as an option. Andrew.
