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From:   "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] mips: rename macros and files from '64' to
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2018, Paul Burton wrote:

> And I realise that undoing that but keeping n64 in our own filenames &
> macros is another type of inconsistency, but something imperfect is
> unavoidable at this point given that the engineers way back when decided
> to use "ABI64" for n64.

 My feeling has been n32 was invented at SGI as an afterthought, hence the 
choice of having ABI32 or ABI64 defined for the 32-bit (now o32) and the 
64-bit (now n64) ABI respectively was reasonable.

 FWIW,

  Maciej