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authorTimothee Cour <timothee.cour2@gmail.com>2021-01-20 02:10:11 -0800
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-01-20 11:10:11 +0100
commit00d9176e91c4a44ed2ccd8dd19c29e9f3d0f6ace (patch)
treeba116e091a2578f7f0e21d2c0e3d1b2c9d1d2dd0
parent14730d9d64c0d4a9c1f123a21a2894cfbd1ed314 (diff)
downloadNim-00d9176e91c4a44ed2ccd8dd19c29e9f3d0f6ace.tar.gz
some comments for amd64 and nimvm CPU (#16756)
-rw-r--r--compiler/platform.nim3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/platform.nim b/compiler/platform.nim
index 714946315..a4e5f2d7f 100644
--- a/compiler/platform.nim
+++ b/compiler/platform.nim
@@ -214,13 +214,14 @@ const
     (name: "vm", intSize: 32, endian: littleEndian, floatSize: 64, bit: 32),
     (name: "hppa", intSize: 32, endian: bigEndian, floatSize: 64, bit: 32),
     (name: "ia64", intSize: 64, endian: littleEndian, floatSize: 64, bit: 64),
-    (name: "amd64", intSize: 64, endian: littleEndian, floatSize: 64, bit: 64),
+    (name: "amd64", intSize: 64, endian: littleEndian, floatSize: 64, bit: 64), # a.k.a. x86_64, covers both amd and intel
     (name: "mips", intSize: 32, endian: bigEndian, floatSize: 64, bit: 32),
     (name: "mipsel", intSize: 32, endian: littleEndian, floatSize: 64, bit: 32),
     (name: "arm", intSize: 32, endian: littleEndian, floatSize: 64, bit: 32),
     (name: "arm64", intSize: 64, endian: littleEndian, floatSize: 64, bit: 64),
     (name: "js", intSize: 32, endian: bigEndian,floatSize: 64,bit: 32),
     (name: "nimvm", intSize: 32, endian: bigEndian, floatSize: 64, bit: 32),
+      # xxx this seems buggy; on a 64bit machine, sizeof(int) is 64 in nimvm.
     (name: "avr", intSize: 16, endian: littleEndian, floatSize: 32, bit: 16),
     (name: "msp430", intSize: 16, endian: littleEndian, floatSize: 32, bit: 16),
     (name: "sparc64", intSize: 64, endian: bigEndian, floatSize: 64, bit: 64),