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In the LLVM project, x86_64 is handled inside the x86 namespace. To a compiler, there’s quite a lot of overlap between x86 and the 64-bit extensions that it makes sense to keep them together.

In the source, where the difference matters, you’ll see the prefix X86_32 and X86_64.



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