From e9f8ece3995bd36863693f48e8c6c5fc80621342 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sanjeev Gupta Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 02:27:50 +0800 Subject: Correct IA64 reference Although IA32 is the old i[3456]86 architecture, IA64 is the totally different Itanium chipset. The 64-bit equiv of x96 is x86-64 See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64#Industry_naming_conventions Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Gupta Signed-off-by: Gary E. Miller --- www/hacking.html.in | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'www') diff --git a/www/hacking.html.in b/www/hacking.html.in index 0ebd09db..7fd9bab5 100644 --- a/www/hacking.html.in +++ b/www/hacking.html.in @@ -756,8 +756,8 @@ data.

Porting to weird machines: endianness, width, and signedness issues.

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The gpsd code is well-tested on 32- and 64-bit IA chips, also on -PPCs, also on MIPS. Thus, it's known to work on mainstream chips of +

The gpsd code is well-tested on IA32 and x86-64 (amd64) chips, also on ARM, +PPCs, and MIPS. Thus, it's known to work on mainstream chips of either 32 or 64 bits and either big-endian or little-endian representation with IEE754 floating point.

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