On Stack Overflow, the x86-64 tag is the main tag for questions about 64 bit extensions to the Intel x86 architecture. The amd64 tag is a synonym.
Here on Code Review, the amd64 tag exists (and only has 6 questions), but has no synonyms. The x86-64 tag does not exist at all.
I recently looked at a question about 64 bit assembly that was tagged with assembly and x86. When I went looking for an x86-64
tag to add to it, I couldn't locate one. I did find amd64, but that is not something I would think to look for, particularly because of the existence of x86-64
on Stack Overflow.
Should the x86-64
tag be created as a synonym of amd64? This would help users familiar with Stack Overflow find the tag here.
Or, for consistency with Stack Overflow, should x86-64
be the main tag with amd64
as a synonym?